focus
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Investors might focus on the trends for banks’ net interest margins.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 11, 2026
Yet again, a post-match focus centred on how much Carrick's team ran, even though running for the sake of it has proved to be of little benefit.
From BBC β Oct. 10, 2026
On the third floor, the focus is movement, “woven into the fabric of cinema” through dance-hall and jazz-club settings, as well as in scenes of driving, swimming, riding and piloting.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 10, 2026
The researchers focus on where these cells appear during different stages of healing and how diabetes can disrupt their normal behavior.
From Science Daily β Oct. 10, 2026
I couldn’t see very well and what I could see seemed to be all out of focus.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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 β May 7, 2024
What can be said about the symmetry of the graph of an ellipse with center at the origin and foci along the y-axis?
From Textbooks β Sep. 23, 2020
A line drawn through the foci intersect the ellipse in two points.
From Textbooks β May 6, 2020
The Sun is one of the foci of the elliptical orbit.
From Textbooks β May 6, 2020
Ellipses have two centers, or foci; the more elongated the ellipse, the farther apart these foci are.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
This inaugural exhibition focuses on how contemporary design is moving away from industrial concerns toward more spiritual subjects.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 11, 2026
The closing track focuses on the "real, true, constant love" she's found with musician John Clark Canada.
From BBC β Oct. 9, 2026
Brett Baker, a lawyer for the Central Delta Water Agency, said the lawsuit focuses on curbing the “degradation of the ecosystem, the community, the economy in the Delta.”
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 9, 2026
The research focuses on Nav1.7, a protein that functions as a sodium channel.
From Science Daily β Oct. 8, 2026
The parabola has a special property: it takes the rays of light from the sun, or any distant source, and focuses them to a point, concentrating all the light’s energy on a very small area.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
"The metallic tip acts like an antenna and focusses the electromagnetic field in a tiny area below its apex."
From Science Daily β Nov. 20, 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 β Jun. 7, 2024
This latest research focusses on how this happens at the structural level.
From Science Daily β Dec. 5, 2023
When it comes to providing more housing the document focusses again on reform, this time of the planning system.
From BBC β Sep. 15, 2023
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
This is less than the projected increases for Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, which are more tightly focused on investment banking and wealth management than the other four.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 11, 2026
“Just trying not to flip the barrel so soon,” Bates said of what Ohtani has focused on mechanically.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 11, 2026
The researchers focused on people with mild to moderate osteoarthritis affecting the inner part of the knee.
From Science Daily β Oct. 11, 2026
"It's understandable because GPs are often confronted with depressed patients and therefore they're very focused on diagnosing depression correctly," he said.
From BBC β Oct. 10, 2026
The baby’s eyes were bright, big, and focused completely on the woman’s face.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
At the Met Office headquarters, the screens in one corner of the control centre are focussed on close up imagery of the Sun.
From BBC β Aug. 28, 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 β 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 β Jul. 5, 2026
She said previous studies had focussed more on porpoises but the picture "remained unclear" for common dolphins.
From BBC β Jun. 10, 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
Rather than focusing only on relieving pain, this approach changes the mechanics of walking to reduce pressure on vulnerable parts of the knee.
From Science Daily β Oct. 11, 2026
Now, as American tries to improve its reputation with customers and better manage disruptions, the carrier is focusing on getting travelers to give up their seats voluntarily.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 9, 2026
Similarly, Finnish driver Anita Mäkelä has won the European championship four times – three of them after a six-year break focusing on her children and running her family's chicken farm.
From BBC β Oct. 8, 2026
At the time of his guilty plea, attorney Sarah Chervinsky said the star was “looking forward to focusing on family, work, and new creative projects.”
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 6, 2026
I didn’t like the way that felt, didn’t want to be apart from them, ever, even if Juanita was changing the subject to avoid focusing on what could go wrong.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe GarcΓa McCall
"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 β Sep. 10, 2026
As chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, he criticised the scheme for focussing on "process rather than outcomes".
From BBC β Jan. 15, 2026
Dr Becks Fisher said, of the Nuffield Trust think tank, said the service will be helpful for some and focussing on menopause and menstrual health "makes sense" given the long waits for gynaecology services.
From BBC β Jan. 5, 2026
However, Tom Lubbock, from pollsters JL Partners, thinks focussing on Reform UK is "extremely smart politics".
From BBC β Sep. 30, 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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