Thesaurus results for FOCUSES

focuses

verb

variants or focusses

present tense third-person singular of focus

as in concentrates

to fix (as one's attention) steadily toward a central objective try to focus your attention on the task at hand

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Recent Examples of focuses The ByteDance app, for example, is directing users of its former AI companion service to another of its apps which solely focuses on building personalized AI characters and stories. — ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026 Salvation Army focuses on helping others with substance abuse, rehabilitation, and housing assistance. — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 9 Aug. 2026 The former focuses on radio spins, while the latter incorporates multiple forms of consumption, including streams, sales and airplay. — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026 Mora said that Palantir’s performance reflects the success of its AI strategy, which focuses on delivering the right infrastructure to customers and ensuring better outcomes. — CNBC, 9 Aug. 2026 There’s 5-year-old Ara, who has diabetes (a fact the film focuses on with a touch of heavy-handed irony), but is a numbers-crunching dynamo who does Pilates. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 8 Aug. 2026 However, unlike other biopics, Tony only focuses on one era of Bourdain’s decades-long career. — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 8 Aug. 2026 Unlike the Big Five defense contractors—Lockheed Martin, RTX Corporation, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, and Boeing Company—Anduril focuses on autonomous weapons systems that can be manufactured at higher volumes, faster rates, and lower cost. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Aug. 2026 The intrigue of what might be beyond the curve or around the corner takes the mind away from the size of the space and focuses it on the content of the garden. — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for focuses

concentrates

Verb

This crucial step concentrates the paste’s flavor and removes any raw spice bitterness.

— Marianne Williams, Southern Living, 8 Aug. 2026
This new strategy concentrates funds on fewer, strategic nonprofit partners within five broad sectors like climate and emergency response, chosen based on customer data.

— Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026