: of, relating to, being, or having a focus
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a focal figure in the movement
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The Clippers' two focal stars, Harden and 34-year-old Kawhi Leonard, have been productive when available.
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Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
After receiving focal therapy, which involves using needles to transmit electric pulses that break down the cancer, Cameron decided to join calls for more screening.
—Jack Guy, CNN Money, 24 Nov. 2025
Cancer that hasn’t spread outside the prostate and has a low risk of spreading is often treatable with focal therapy.
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 24 Nov. 2025
This is no sugary-sweet feel good romance though — the focal relationship in the novel is that between Davis and his father, the Reverend Doctor John Freeman, which is… complicated to say the least.
—Ana Osorno, Them., 21 Nov. 2025
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Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
After receiving focal therapy, which involves using needles to transmit electric pulses that break down the cancer, Cameron decided to join calls for more screening.
—Jack Guy, CNN Money, 24 Nov. 2025
Cancer that hasn’t spread outside the prostate and has a low risk of spreading is often treatable with focal therapy.
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 24 Nov. 2025
This is no sugary-sweet feel good romance though — the focal relationship in the novel is that between Davis and his father, the Reverend Doctor John Freeman, which is… complicated to say the least.
—Ana Osorno, Them., 21 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for focal
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“Focal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/focal. Accessed 2 Dec. 2025.
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