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concentrate

[kon-suhn-trayt] / ˈkɒn sənˌtreɪt /




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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

"We're able to take them off, concentrate them and then detect them and see what's present within them."

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

These structures do not have membranes, but they can concentrate RNA molecules in one place.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

During the loud parts, my shoulders tense and I concentrate on my breath, counting the beats.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari

Dry heat browns, evaporates and concentrates while you go do something else.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 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

Marine cloud brightening concentrates particles close to Earth's surface in one specific region.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 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

Gains by many of the benchmark indexes have been heavily concentrated in a relatively small number of stocks, with many others flat or falling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

In this experiment, the laser produces a thin, concentrated channel of plasma known as a plasma filament.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 9, 2026

The damage appeared to be concentrated in the central regions of Herrera, Azuero, Veraguas and Los Santos.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

In fact, within the crude oil shipping market, the Breakwave ETF has an even more concentrated exposure.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

He called the molecule nuclein because it was concentrated in a cell’s nucleus.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

When not concentrating on the bromance, the gubernatorial campaign or Woody’s attempt to determine Matthew’s parentage, “Brothers” is a classic Dumb Dad sitcom, times two.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 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

This can have benefits, the report said, as clinicians can spent their efforts having more meaningful conversations with patients or concentrating on complex tasks.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

It was a reaction—I wasn’t concentrating and trying to float then like I was now.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce




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