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 Luke Montrose, a professor at Colorado State University whose research focuses in part on the impact of wildfire smoke on disease risk, said glutathione has anti-inflammatory properties. — ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026 The beginning of the advertisement focuses on Miestowski reaching for a driver in a golf bag. — Mark Harris Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 Aug. 2026 This shift focuses primarily on visuals, with a new logo and campaign imagery. — Alice Cary, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2026 And while much of the conversation focuses on efficiency and automation, Scarlett sees something much bigger. — Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026 Dalio’s OceanX focuses on exploring uncharted undersea regions and marine life, work supported in part by Triton Submarines, the private-submersible company he co-owns with filmmaker James Cameron. — Brett Berk, Robb Report, 22 Aug. 2026 Roman said the question will be if the defense focuses on their own psychiatric experts right away, or Clancy's friends and family to humanize her to the jurors. — Aaron Parseghian, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026 One of Thrive’s subsidiaries, Thrive Eternal, focuses on sports acquisitions, purchasing and selling a stake in the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies before acquiring stakes in the Miami Heat and MLB’s San Francisco Giants, among others. — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2026 The work focuses particularly on gallium nitride (GaN) devices, which are already widely used in high-performance radar, electronic warfare, and communications systems. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for focuses

concentrates

Verb

Dairy products including milk, cream, whey and milk protein concentrates.

— Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 19 Aug. 2026
Boards and executives should be able to see how AI is being used, where the risk concentrates and how value is tracked without slowing every decision to a crawl.

— Patrick Pugh, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026