focus
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“Practicing that, I felt it would help focus in on what I have to do and not distractions. I feel it’s going to help me on the field.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
The appearance of the arena was immediately striking, with an infield painted black with the intention of directing the audience's focus to the illuminated live action.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
While U.S. investors focus on the Fed, the bigger surprise could come from the Bank of Japan.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Perhaps their focus on health contributes to the generation being less inclined to suffer through such extreme conditions.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
I close my eyes, trying to focus on the numbers I’m counting.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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
The line through the foci is called the transverse axis.
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
The sun is one of the foci of the elliptical orbit.
From Textbooks ● 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
Its latest campaign focuses on conditions in government schools in rural India.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
One of the main research questions associated with our fieldwork focuses on the question of tomb placement and tomb reuse – for which the newly discovered tomb carries important scholarly significance.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
Special prayers are recited, and the liturgy’s imagery focuses on repentance and seeking forgiveness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
According to Brandon Nelson, a senior portfolio manager at Calamos Investments who focuses on small- and midcap stocks, signs of robust earnings growth helped fuel small-caps’ outperformance earlier in the year.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
The camera focuses on a man playing an acoustic guitar, sitting casually on a wooden stool, while a curly-brown-haired girl sings.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
The trust also includes Chase Farm hospital, which focusses on planned surgery - such as orthopaedics and ear, nose and throat.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 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
“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
But above all he is the microcosm, the tiny percipient centre upon which the immense cosmic circle focusses itself as the sun upon a burning-glass—and he is not shrivelled up by the miracle!
From Poetry by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
The research team, led by Assistant Professor Congyu "Peter" Wu, focused on a concept known as Shannon entropy.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
She cited a decision this week by Ecuadorean officials to eliminate judges from a specialized judicial unit focused on anticorruption and organized crime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
"Currently, we are focused on the retrieval, and after that we will proceed with the investigation," she said, confirming the bodies had been found in the ship's economy accommodation area.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
But he also had his critics: they said he focused too much on records, and on marketing his expeditions to a growing social media following.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
He scrolled through hoping to find more details: his father’s name, how she felt about having a baby, but she was more focused on the medicine.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
The first minister's speech focussed on reform of the public sector to save money, cut bureaucracy, and improve how services are delivered.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
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 ● Aug. 28, 2026
Pushing through this is definitely not easy, England stayed focussed, they stayed in the zone, a huge shout out to them because that's not an easy one.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 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
Rather than focusing only on killing cancer cells directly, the strategy is designed to alter the surrounding environment that protects them.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
Dipke says focusing on the leak was not a strategic decision, but a response to students who reached out to the CJP.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Sam Schechner is a writer and editor at The Wall Street Journal, focusing on the intersection of technology, business and society.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
“It’s something that I’m going to reflect back on during the offseason. I’m just making sure that I’m focusing on the now and finishing strong.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
“Anyway,” Wielaf said, focusing on Håkon, “we wanted to make sure you three were all right. We thought dragons were extinct. The tsar would turn himself inside out to get his hands on you.”
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
"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
He described the Scottish election result as "disappointing and hurtful" and took full responsibility for the strategy of focussing the campaign on constituencies rather than the list vote.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
The Green Party also has two sitting councillors and group leader Lauren McLay wants to see a new approach to housing focussing on affordability.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
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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