focus
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In your 70s, the focus gradually shifts from building wealth to using it wisely.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
As the experiment moves into its next century, much of the focus is on climate change.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
It is meant to be able to handle tasks such as pulling research or drafting documents, freeing up senior lawyers to focus on winning new business and advising clients.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
This has led scientists to focus more closely on how brain cells react to these abnormal proteins, rather than simply measuring how much pathology is present.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
I focus on the sounds of my own body propelling me forward—my feet drumming against the ground, my arms swishing against the sides of my tank top, my breath whooshing in and out.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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
The line through the foci, is called the transverse axis.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020
The Sun is one of the foci of the elliptical orbit.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 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
Samantha Thomas, creator of Budget Mum UK, says she focuses on the time she can give her children, rather than the money she could spend on a day out.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
The research focuses on hepatocyte growth factor, or HGF, a protein that helps initiate the repair of skeletal muscle.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
AMD’s approach focuses on throughput, or the number of tasks that can run at once, while Nvidia’s technique targets latency, or how quickly a task is done.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
The World Bank's new five-year plan agreed with China focuses on delivering economic growth while also providing better jobs, social resilience and a low-carbon economy.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
He focuses on the dish brush, swishing the suds around, trying to get a streak of pizza cheese off a plate without getting his cast wet.
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
Unlike Orban, who waxes lyrical on global politics, Magyar focusses on domestic issues such as healthcare, education, transport and rural depopulation in his speeches.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
"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
“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
This latest research focusses on how this happens at the structural level.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2023
The reason for this is that the analysis focusses only on the link between wage costs and productivity.
From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Colignatus, Thomas
Cleveland-based KeyCorp Chief Executive Christopher Gorman said recently a “bifurcation” between investment-banking revenue trends at the biggest banks versus middle market focused banks such as Key exists because bigger banks’ bigger clients move first.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
The discussions focused on "common principles and operational mechanisms" for ensuring the safe passage of shipping through the strait while respecting the sovereign rights of the two states, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
At Bellflower Middle and High School, Principal Jessica Cummings said a Teen Dating Violence Awareness Week and parent workshops focused on fostering healthy relationships increased awareness on her campus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
Over the weekend, rainfall was focused mainly across the north and west of the UK.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Olka was bent over one of the sewing machines, so focused on her work that I had to touch her shoulder to get her attention.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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
Aligned with the Value Jersey movement, his campaign focussed heavily on the cost of living on the island.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
"We're currently focussed on the Grand Final of the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, with 25 incredible songs and artists from across Europe and Australia competing," they said.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Police soon focussed on Nat Fraser – but the inquiry ran into two major problems.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 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
"I understand the United States is focusing on the Middle East," Zelensky told Sky News.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
Instead of focusing only on removing amyloid plaques, future treatments might aim to preserve beneficial early microglial activity or influence the transition between different microglial states.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
I want things and instead of focusing on that I find ways to get there to get that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
Judges Patty Schwartz and Cheryl Ann Krause wrote incandescent dissents focusing on something that’s been driving you and me crazy for years: this “common use” test.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
Other Republican operatives like John Beckley, the Speaker of the House, were focusing on the political factions in Pennsylvania, another key state.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
AI has shaken the cyber-security world, with concerns focussing on Mythos in particular.
From BBC ● May 27, 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
Campbell insisted he was focussing on the future and delivering on his election promises.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2025
"The Turing is focussing on high-impact missions that support the UK's sovereign AI capabilities, including in defence and national security," the spokesperson said.
From BBC ● Jul. 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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