concentrate
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Together, these characteristics allow the bacteria to concentrate where tumors are located while avoiding normal tissues.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
“It’s going to concentrate the fundraising over the next few years as well into these already very large names,” Stanford said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Greater presidential control has upsides and downsides—in dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor predicts that the ruling will concentrate unprecedented and possibly dangerous levels of power in the president’s hands.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
She says things are going so well she left her full-time marketing job in February to concentrate exclusively on her dance business.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
Warm water runs over my soapy hands, and I concentrate on cleaning as if that were the most important thing.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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A biography with the history dialed down concentrates on Jefferson’s thoughts, personality, relationships and milieu.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Lamine Yamal prefers to let the media talk the talk while he concentrates on walking the walk, even with the constant Ballon d'Or chatter that has followed him since he was 16.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
To overcome that limitation, the research team designed the detector around a metasurface, a patterned structure that concentrates electromagnetic energy into extremely small regions.
From Science Daily ● May 31, 2026
China’s Sichuan Yahua Industrial Group announced this week that it had secured a six-month export quota for lithium concentrates from Zimbabwe, just two months after the African country banned exports of raw lithium.
From Barron's ● Apr. 17, 2026
Penny walks with such determination, her face alternating between frowns and smiles as she concentrates on marching down the path between our two houses, then climbing the front steps with both hands and both feet.
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
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Kalshi, launched in 2021 after approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, describes itself as the largest prediction market platform, with millions of traders historically concentrated in sports and politics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Population growth is increasingly concentrated in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and some Middle Eastern countries, the report said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
One where power is concentrated in distant institutions, or one where it is shared more fairly with the people and places those institutions are meant to serve.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
The use of leverage, whether from margin debt, options trading or levered exchange-traded funds, all tends to be concentrated in the same stocks, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
In repose he looks harmless—cuddly even, with most of his bulk concentrated in the lower third of his body.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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“Premium tiers sell out and premium prices rise because high-quality engagement demand is concentrating in a scarce set of premium acts,” the analysts said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
They experience heightened anxiety, panic attacks, intrusive memories, and difficulty concentrating in general.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
New superconducting magnets, capable of further concentrating the particle beams, will be installed to increase the number of collisions.
From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026
Though the VA plan would be consistent in scope with the order, concentrating the units in one spot would not.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
It was an unpleasant image, to say the least, and she quickly dispelled it by concentrating on her surroundings.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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