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Recent Examples of focal point
Make your front door the focal point With clean hardscape and sharp landscaping in place, your front door becomes the natural next focus.
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Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2026
Upgrade Your Front Door Area The front door is the focal point of any home’s exterior.
—Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 6 Apr. 2026
With just one bolster or lumbar pillow in a standout textile—such as linen or velvet, for instance—the bed gains a striking focal point.
—Marisa Suzanne Martin, The Spruce, 5 Apr. 2026
The right skirt can serve as a statement piece, the focal point of your ensemble.
—Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2026
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Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2026
Upgrade Your Front Door Area The front door is the focal point of any home’s exterior.
—Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 6 Apr. 2026
With just one bolster or lumbar pillow in a standout textile—such as linen or velvet, for instance—the bed gains a striking focal point.
—Marisa Suzanne Martin, The Spruce, 5 Apr. 2026
The right skirt can serve as a statement piece, the focal point of your ensemble.
—Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for focal point
Recent Examples of Synonyms for focal point
Noun
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Rising electricity rates have been a fault line in recent campaigns, especially as enormous data centers are built to power artificial intelligence.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2026
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Hager, who worked at three ARC centers during the span of nearly a decade, said those kinds of groups that ARC billed for were the standard and forging group notes was common.—
Alex Acquisto,
CNN Money,
9 Apr. 2026
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The storm, which hit the New York area in October, 2012, unlocked billions of dollars in resilience spending, with hurricanes, rather than heat waves or cloudbursts, as the focus.—
Eric Klinenberg,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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But Shanxi's major focus and biggest success for life after coal has been tourism.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
6 Apr. 2026
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But her heart drifted toward other activities — usually whatever her brother Treston Brazile was doing, like baseball, soccer, and basketball.—
Charles Baggarly
April 7,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Apr. 2026
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The camera briefly returned to the actual game — the Giants’ Landen Roupp threw a pitch to Jorge Polanco, who fouled the ball off his foot — but the booth’s hearts were clearly in the stands.—
Samantha Agate,
Miami Herald,
6 Apr. 2026
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“Focal point.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/focal%20point. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.
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