focus
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The county needs to focus on updating and enumerating plans to ensure “the next disaster is met with updated and enhanced plans with clear authorities,” the report said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Both provisions focus on the use of money or the promise of benefits to get individuals to vote in a particular way.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
Figuring out how to govern A.I. must focus on the latter.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
With the European Central Bank lifting rates last week, focus is now on the Fed, with traders pricing a more than 90 percent chance that it will also hike.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
I needed to focus on the here and now and find a way to pull off Christmas on this island.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
The fasting mice had better blood values, less fatty liver and liver inflammation and above all: they developed less liver cancer and had fewer cancer foci in the liver.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2024
One of the foci will be located at the origin.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
TRY IT #7 Graph the ellipse given by the equation Identify and label the center, vertices, co-vertices, and foci.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 23, 2020
TRY IT #5 Graph the ellipse given by the equation Identify and label the center, vertices, co- vertices, and foci.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 23, 2020
Even therapeutic measures have the important result not only of curing the patient but of reducing the foci of infection.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
The company said the plan also focuses on broadening the customer base and deepening relationships with existing customers, while also reinforcing the insurer’s competitiveness despite what it called a more challenging environment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
His research focuses on how volcanoes work, particularly what causes some eruptions to become explosive and which processes control their behavior.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
"I know very well it's likely to be extremely close," admitted Camila Salazar Atias, a 54-year-old criminologist whose work focuses on Sweden's organised crime networks and their grip on society.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
At news conferences, she focuses on meat-and-potato issues such as the amount of time it takes the city to fix streetlights and potholes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
She looks up and focuses her watery eyes on one of the Erudite.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
It now focusses on its potential to "harness the energy of locally produced feedstocks".
From BBC ● May 29, 2025
"The metallic tip acts like an antenna and focusses the electromagnetic field in a tiny area below its apex."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2024
The effect is comparable in certain respects to when a camera focusses on one subject and blurs out the foreground and background.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2024
“This shocking news focusses our minds on Michael’s wife Clare and their sons,” said Roy Taylor, a professor of medicine and metabolism at Newcastle University who co-authored “The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet” with Mosley.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2024
Raffles, however, following the chronicles, focusses the overthrow of the Hindu supremacy in the capture of the city of Majapahit in 1478 A.D.
From A Visit to Java With an Account of the Founding of Singapore by W. Basil (William Basil) Worsfold
Lando Norris' bad luck with the virtual safety car at the Spanish Grand Prix has certainly focused attention on the ways this can disrupt races.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Kurzweil recently wrote on X that the consensus AI boom cycle has venture investors narrowly focused on the next trillion-dollar startup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Some firefighters hiked down into the canyon to contain the flames, while others were focused on defending the homes along an adjacent ridgeline, Navarre said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
He said his group is focused on creating "trusted AI systems" that are transparent and allow operators to understand how a particular conclusion has been reached.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
I’m focused on the bluff, not on Eddie.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
Authorities have said rescue efforts have been largey focussed on the Trishuli 3A and 3B sites - hydropower projects with tunnels.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
The college said mental health staff have been too focussed on treating symptoms rather than exploring how past traumatic experiences can still affect patients.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
But that didn't stop its shares from surging nearly 10 percent on Thursday, as investors focussed on its profit outlook.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Across Caracas and La Guaira, many were focussed instead on Sunday services in churches to remember those lost and still missing.
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
“Partly on his interest being focussed on what he calls ‘the soul,’ which he persists in regarding as an entity independent of the physical environment, whereas, as I tried to point out to him ...”
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
The market is still focusing on Middle East developments, says Quek Ser Leang of UOB Global Economics & Markets Research in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Chiu said federal limits on residency for those who would be a “public charge” have in the past been applied in a “narrow and consistent way,” focusing on certain cash assistance and long-term medical needs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
But focusing on the COLA’s magnitude is much ado about nothing.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Sudmant, meanwhile, is focusing more closely on how those cells regulate their immune responses.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
Witching Hour had wild eyes that seemed to move independently of each other, never focusing on any one thing.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
"We spent the first 20 years of this century focussing almost entirely on counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency," said Sir Alex Younger, who was Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service from 2014-2020.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
It has been promoted as a means of bringing people together in the shared story of their traumatic past, with "reparations" quite literally focussing on "repair" at a very human level.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The NHS was thought to have only two weeks' supply in stock and so was focussing on emergency patients and the most complex cases on the waiting list.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
He says rather than focussing on extending life-span, we should instead strive for healthy years lived.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025
Occasionally, focussing on a linguistic alteration can mislead us into thinking that something important has happened when it hasn’t, or that something happened at a particular moment when it actually happened earlier.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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