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as in to focus
to fix (as one's attention) steadily toward a central objective a president who will try to concentrate public attention on the problems of inner cities

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as in to accumulate
to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass the ozone layer is concentrated 20 to 30 miles above the Earth's surface

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Recent Examples of concentrate The pores of an MOF can be designed to concentrate specific target molecules. Bohong Zhang, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025 According to the South China Morning Post, the mirrors concentrate sunlight onto the towers, where the intense heat reaching up to 1,058 degrees Fahrenheit (570 degrees Celsius), melts and stores energy in a high-temperature medium. Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2025 Typically, mines extract copper from ores by grinding the rock, concentrating the ore, and then using high-temperature smelting or chemical leaching with strong acids. IEEE Spectrum, 9 Oct. 2025 Rather than being spread out, the debris produced by the shower’s parent comet, 21P/Giacobini-Zinner, is mostly concentrated at its center. Gina Park, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for concentrate
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  • This interview has been edited and condensed.
    Leia Mendoza, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
  • This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
    Belinda Luscombe, Time, 13 Oct. 2025
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  • If the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel holds, where will The Free Press focus the majority of its editorial attention?
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • While Waze still focuses on driving, this integration blurs the lines between the two apps.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2025
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  • However, secretive and unregulated practices by PBMs, which are heavily consolidated, have led to a chorus of drug manufacturers, pharmacists, and government regulators calling for more oversight.
    Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 11 Oct. 2025
  • All spending was re-evaluated, vendor contracts renegotiated, staffing reduced and space consolidated to save maintenance costs.
    Jan Goldsmith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025
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  • Hackman was not only a collector but an artist himself, and his approach to collecting mirrors the care, aesthetic sensibility, and discipline evident in his own artistic practice.
    Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Other teams might act as if a dollar today is worth more than a dollar tomorrow, yet unlike money, draft picks do not collect interest.
    Zach Berman, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
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  • Just three minutes later, Schneider’s shot-on-goal was deflected by a Canton defender toward the strong-side post, which Handwerk gathered and finished off for the insurance goal.
    Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
  • About two dozen people gathered at the town council meeting on October 16 to voice concern and distress about drinking, bathing in or washing their clothes in the yellow, brown water as the public comment period stretched over an hour.
    Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 17 Oct. 2025
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  • Rainwater tends to accumulate at the road edges.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Before this tournament, Vacherot had only won once on the ATP Tour, accumulating $594,077 in prize money throughout his entire career.
    Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
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  • Now, many employers are looking to harness the power of AI—initially for mundane and repetitive tasks and eventually for more complicated jobs—to reduce the need to maintain the same level of human staffers on their payrolls.
    Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
  • And drivers can reduce the risk of their cars being hit.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025
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  • The results come at a time when thousands of schools are opting to integrate financial skills into their curriculum, while at the same time, reading levels among students have hit all time lows.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Beyond employment, Wilson Administration officials re-segregated bathrooms, lunchrooms, and workspaces in federal buildings that had been integrated since the end of the Civil War.
    Time, Time, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Concentrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concentrate. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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