as in immersion
a focusing of the mind on something
the noise from the party next door threatened to disturb the law student's concentration
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Recent Examples of concentration
The town had benefited for decades from a heavy concentration of large-scale insurance office centers, but suffered when the pandemic’s work-from-home trend closed many of them.
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Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 27 Apr. 2026
The goal, council members said at the time, was to pursue limiting the total number of vacation rentals citywide, and particularly their concentration in the coastal region west of Interstate 5.
—Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
Glucose spikes were reduced by roughly 52% compared to sitting over the 180-minute period where glucose responses were measured, with an average difference of 19 mg/dL in glucose concentrations already visible at 30 minutes.
—Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 26 Apr. 2026
That concentration suggests a narrower market than the industry’s urban-commuter pitch implies.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2026
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Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 27 Apr. 2026
The goal, council members said at the time, was to pursue limiting the total number of vacation rentals citywide, and particularly their concentration in the coastal region west of Interstate 5.
—Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
Glucose spikes were reduced by roughly 52% compared to sitting over the 180-minute period where glucose responses were measured, with an average difference of 19 mg/dL in glucose concentrations already visible at 30 minutes.
—Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 26 Apr. 2026
That concentration suggests a narrower market than the industry’s urban-commuter pitch implies.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for concentration
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Centered on the filmmaker’s brother, a Chinese gangster living in Spain, the debut feature offers a rare immersion into a world more frequently explored through fiction than documentary.—
Lise Pedersen,
Variety,
24 Apr. 2026
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Trane completed the full acquisition of LiquidStack in March 2026, adding direct-to-chip and immersion cooling to an already formidable thermal management portfolio.—
Josh Brown,Sean Russo,
CNBC,
23 Apr. 2026
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Companies are required, under threat of criminal penalties, to bring new information to the government’s attention.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
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Lawyers who represent Silicon Valley’s biggest AI firms are paying attention.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
27 Apr. 2026
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The body also becomes less efficient at absorption with age.—
Helen Carefoot,
Flow Space,
24 Apr. 2026
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Fiber, paired with protein, keeps things moving and also helps with protein absorption.—
Rebecca Firkser,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
23 Apr. 2026
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“Concentration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concentration. Accessed 30 Apr. 2026.
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