: of, relating to, being, or having a focus
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a focal figure in the movement
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How the Smart Bandage Heals Wounds Faster Every two hours, the bandage’s camera module takes 11 images at different focal depths.
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Diya Dwarakanath, IEEE Spectrum, 13 Nov. 2025
Drawn and composed in shifting degrees of blur, grain and focal distortion, the film traces how sight shapes emotional attachment.
—Callum McLennan, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
Multiple scholars focus on the Black and Native experiences, allowing those sides of the stories to feel like more than mere footnotes, if never truly focal.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
Presence of focal neurological deficits.
—New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2025
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Diya Dwarakanath, IEEE Spectrum, 13 Nov. 2025
Drawn and composed in shifting degrees of blur, grain and focal distortion, the film traces how sight shapes emotional attachment.
—Callum McLennan, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
Multiple scholars focus on the Black and Native experiences, allowing those sides of the stories to feel like more than mere footnotes, if never truly focal.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
Presence of focal neurological deficits.
—New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2025
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“Focal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/focal. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.
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