focusing

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occupying adj.
refining adj.
concentration n.

ADJECTIVE

occupying

Synonyms

STRONG

absorbing attracting drawing engaging engrossing exacting exciting interesting monopolizing requiring utilizing

WEAK

concentrated upon concerned with

Antonyms

STRONG

boring repulsive unexciting unstimulating

WEAK

gone leaving removing

ADJECTIVE

refining

Synonyms

STRONG

civilizing clarifying cleaning cultivating distillation elevating honing improving perfecting polishing purifying sharpening

NOUN

concentration

Synonyms

STRONGEST

absorption combination consolidation

STRONG

application assembly centering centralization clustering compression concern congregation convergence converging debate deliberation fixing heed intensification narrowing need single-mindedness study unity

WEAK

amassing bringing to bear close attention coalescing compacting flocking huddling massing

Antonyms

STRONGEST

division parting separation severance

WEAK

dispersal scattering

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focusing

They’ll respect your affection for an old Underwood typewriter while focusing on the practical question of where it’s actually going to go.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Red Queen Bio is focusing on flus that public-health officials have identified as top risks because of how AI systems could lower barriers for modifying them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

I have been focusing on my football in England in the Championship.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

The latest study pushed the search even farther back in time, focusing on whether magnetism was present while the sun itself was still coming together.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

Griffith approached the problem by focusing on the microbe: Why was pneumococcus so fatal to animals?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

focusing

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