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 U.S. is likely to concentrate its remaining air defenses to protect the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The US labor market has been largely stable this year, allowing the Fed to concentrate on the inflation side of its dual mandate.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 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
He yelled at the top of his lungs, imagining himself as a fearsome rhinoceros, but with Ares and Mars screaming in his head, he couldn’t concentrate.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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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
Most current guidance, however, concentrates on the total amount of time people spend sedentary.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
Prices for crop products saw the largest monthly gain since March 2022, following a decline in June, while gold, silver, and platinum group metal ores and concentrates prices dropped for the month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
“When he concentrates on this distance, he’ll be unbeatable.”
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
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Rather than trying to manufacture large numbers of mature macrophages, first author Shi Yue, MD, of Ying's laboratory and his colleagues concentrated on GMPs, the progenitor cells that can produce macrophages.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
The BBC's Evan Davis, who was travelling through the Eurotunnel to Calais at the time of the incident, witnessed blue light vehicles "concentrated on one of the platforms" as he entered France.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
The latest steps are mainly concentrated in "strategic infrastructure investment", said Oxford Economics' Yue, meaning that they are "likely to generate weaker near-term employment and income gains than previous stimulus cycles".
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
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
Hanako concentrated on looking like a normal person, just out for a stroll while dragging a big bag.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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The rapid empire building has stirred unease in Hollywood, where filmmakers and other talent worry that concentrating so much production and distribution under one owner could give them fewer places to sell their work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 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 cautioned against the technology concentrating wealth, saying OpenAI did not want to be the only company in the field or to "suck up all the value."
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
She ran, concentrating only on not colliding with anything that would slow her.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
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