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focus

[foh-kuhs] / ˈfoʊ kəs /
NOUN
center or object of attention
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NOUN
point at which light or sound converge
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Dr. Ghasemi says the findings do not rule out concerns that governments and companies may focus on consumer behavior to avoid responsibility for larger structural reforms.

From Science Daily Jul. 25, 2026

Senate Majority Leader John Thune isn’t concealing his disinterest in what the House is offering, saying that he wants to focus on government funding instead.

From Slate Jul. 25, 2026

The hottest weather will initially focus itself on central and eastern England by Tuesday before spreading northwards and westwards.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

“Our focus on premium products continues to drive improvements in credit performance,” Chief Financial Officer Christophe Le Caillec said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

He could see these people a little better because his eyes weren't quite so new, so he blinked to focus more clearly and stared up at them.

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry

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

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 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

If we draw a line through the foci intersects the ellipse in two points—each is called a vertex of the ellipse.

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

When my camera lens focuses on that tiny pale white dot, I feel so far away from them.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga

"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 work of artist, writer and curator Tom Hicks focusses on the typography, signage and street signs of his local area.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2023

The moment the will focusses upon any concrete aim as its goal, it must thereby miss that Good which is above and beyond all particular "things" that can be conceived or named.

From Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Jones, Rufus Matthew

"For many years, aging research has focused on identifying factors that increase the risk of disease," added co-first author Ignazio S. Piras, PhD, associate professor in TGen's Early Detection and Prevention Division.

From Science Daily Jul. 25, 2026

T-Mobile CFO Osvaldik doubts that SpaceX has a credible path to low-band spectrum, since upcoming auctions are focused on mid- and higher-frequency bands.

From MarketWatch Jul. 25, 2026

The machines use focused beams of ultraviolet light to etch on wafers of silicon billions of transistors roughly the width of a strand of DNA.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

“While nothing can replace the life that was lost, the swift and focused work of our detectives resulted in the suspect being safely taken into custody.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

It was just her now, filling the screen, her hair loose and tumbling past her shoulders in perfect waves; her warm eyes, focused directly on him, flickered with television static.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

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

"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

Morgan, who unveils details of her party's offer to voters on Monday, said she was focussed on tackling the cost of living crisis and "putting money back in people's pockets".

From BBC Mar. 30, 2026

It is focussed on West Antarctica, home to 30-40% of the global population of Emperor penguins.

From BBC Feb. 25, 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

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

Thomas suggests focusing on your budget first to understand what you can comfortably spend, and then build your activities around that, to help remove any "stress or guilt" during the holidays.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

Still, the streaming giant seems to be focusing mainly on the edges of production -- from visualizing a concept early on to color-grading footage after filming wraps.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

The Sun is the only paper to lead on something other than Burnham, instead focusing on the death of former England footballer and manager Kevin Keegan at the age of 75.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

I try to squeeze them out by focusing loudly.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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

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 Jan. 5, 2026

However, Tom Lubbock, from pollsters JL Partners, thinks focussing on Reform UK is "extremely smart politics".

From BBC Sep. 30, 2025

They worry that all it does is belittle hard work and dedication, instead, focussing on appearance and the pressure to look a certain way.

From BBC Aug. 22, 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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