focalize
Example Sentences
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Most men have ability enough, if they could only focalize it into one grand, central, all-absorbing purpose, to accomplish great things.
From How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune by Marden, Orison Swett
The bacilli multiply everywhere, but seem for some reason to focalize chiefly in the alimentary canal, and especially the middle part of it, the small intestines.
From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods
Versatile men, universal geniuses, are usually weak, because they have no power to concentrate the rays of their ability, to focalize them upon one point, until they burn a hole in whatever they undertake.
From How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune by Marden, Orison Swett
Such a construction is particularly stable, as these focalize on the line of interest.
From Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures by Poore, Henry Rankin
If it did not focalize, it would see indistinctly.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various
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