concentrate
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The pitch is familiar: Faster service, fewer mistakes and less repetitive work for employees, who will theoretically be freed to concentrate on something more important.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
The settings do not merely suggest sterility but concentrate the mind on the performers’ fascinating countenances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
"Exempting the family home however much it's worth will just encourage older people to concentrate their savings in their home, prevent downsizing, and so further gum up the housing market," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Previous research has associated metabolites produced during protein fermentation with effects on the brain, including anxiety and reduced ability to concentrate.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
For a while I tried to concentrate on the names and addresses in the briefcase.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Dry heat browns, evaporates and concentrates while you go do something else.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
Lawrence and others, concentrates on the young Brahms as the composer takes his first steps toward mastering all genres of music except opera.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
The Lib Dem leader also addressed the potential threat posed by AI in his speech, saying that "handled badly, it concentrates more power in fewer hands than at any point in human history."
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
The focus was on raw concentrates of the rechargeable battery ingredient lithium, with most of its hundreds of thousands of tons of annual production shipped out to China, the world's largest maker of electric vehicles.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
Instead, she concentrates on the tap, tap, tap of her thumb to her fingers, and on the weight of the Saint Christopher medal in her pocket.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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They show the concentrated benefits to the energy industry, such as higher profit margins and more exports, but they stop there.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
If other ancient clusters also contain unexpectedly concentrated dark matter and display unusually advanced development, scientists may need to revise some of their basic assumptions about how quickly large cosmic structures formed.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
Adding a risky, concentrated private investment to your broader stock portfolio is not necessarily the best way to diversify.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
Growth is primarily concentrated in coastal states like California and New York, although Ferro said Texas and Florida are scaling up quickly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
But Lord Fredrick showed no interest whatsoever in the conversation and concentrated grimly on his food.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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Leverage works great when asset prices rise, but concentrating a large share of your wealth in a single, illiquid, undiversified asset also magnifies downside risk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The path to a safe future, he said, is to “distribute this technology widely and create the right checks and balances, rather than concentrating it in the hands of just a few.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
They would be small enough for quantum effects to become important while also concentrating enough mass and energy for gravity to matter.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
He also said that the company would be concentrating jobs in key hubs, with global teams mainly in New York and San Francisco.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
She has been so busy concentrating on her ball that she hasn’t noticed the ridiculous sight behind her.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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