Showing Results for "focussing"

focussing

VERB

aim attention at

Synonyms

STRONGEST

attract concentrate direct fixate meet put

STRONG

adjust center centralize concenter convene converge fasten fix join pinpoint rivet sharpen spotlight sweat

WEAK

bring out home in home in on hone in key on knuckle down move in pour it on zero in zoom in

Antonyms

STRONG

disarrange disorganize disperse divide ignore scatter separate

WEAK

neglect

Example Sentences

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"As intervention is required, the government in making appropriate interventions but we're already focussing on keeping bills down."

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

As chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, he criticised the scheme for focussing on "process rather than outcomes".

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026

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

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2025

"So I'm just looking forward to focussing on medicine in the near future."

From BBC • Aug. 21, 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