focalize
Example Sentences
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It can be especially useful for evaluating illnesses that do not necessarily have a focalized lesion, such as in psychiatry.
From Scientific American
The ethical problem of that crisis, beyond mere political organization, remains the same as the one that animates “The Nevada Test Site”: How do we focalize our little lives in relation to the world?
From The New Yorker
All my motions focalized on pretending to be that guileless schoolgirl who had nothing more wearying to think about than mid-term exams.
From Literature
When using the app, words are presented one at a time, in the exact spot where our gaze is “focalized,” or primed for visual recognition.
From Time
Between the ages of 40 and 50, the crystalline lenses of his eyes having hardened along with the other tissues of his body, he finds it impossible to focalize as he used to.
From Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
