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or focusses
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
Teams like the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees will be pushing for Tucker's services as Chicago focuses on pitching.
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Drew Vonscio, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
Microsoft, which has a dominant position in enterprise software and focuses largely on business customers, wants to build AI capabilities into Office and Windows that can automate complex tasks out of the box.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 6 Nov. 2025
The trailer, soundtracked by a lilting piano melody, reveals the basic premise of the film, which focuses on a young boy named Arco from a distant and peaceful future, where humans live in the sky and use rainbow suits to fly through the air.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2025
Most current cancer immunotherapies target proteins or genes, but this new therapy focuses on the sugars on the cell surface, blocking them so that immune cells can find and attack the cancer, according to researchers from Northwestern University in Chicago.
—Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2025
With these risks avoided, Blackrock focuses on using its system to allow patients to operate computers and, as with Echo, speak via an on-screen avatar.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
As technology and home routines play a growing role in how people approach health, AEKE focuses on making wellness more accessible, efficient, and sustainable.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
MyView focuses on reading comprehension, nonfiction text structures and writing.
—Alec Johnson, jsonline.com, 6 Nov. 2025
Solomon said one such initiative focuses on the fidelity—often called achievability and visualization by designers—of color transfer onto different materials.
—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 5 Nov. 2025
Drew Vonscio, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
Microsoft, which has a dominant position in enterprise software and focuses largely on business customers, wants to build AI capabilities into Office and Windows that can automate complex tasks out of the box.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 6 Nov. 2025
The trailer, soundtracked by a lilting piano melody, reveals the basic premise of the film, which focuses on a young boy named Arco from a distant and peaceful future, where humans live in the sky and use rainbow suits to fly through the air.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2025
Most current cancer immunotherapies target proteins or genes, but this new therapy focuses on the sugars on the cell surface, blocking them so that immune cells can find and attack the cancer, according to researchers from Northwestern University in Chicago.
—Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2025
With these risks avoided, Blackrock focuses on using its system to allow patients to operate computers and, as with Echo, speak via an on-screen avatar.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
As technology and home routines play a growing role in how people approach health, AEKE focuses on making wellness more accessible, efficient, and sustainable.
—Jason Phillips, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
MyView focuses on reading comprehension, nonfiction text structures and writing.
—Alec Johnson, jsonline.com, 6 Nov. 2025
Solomon said one such initiative focuses on the fidelity—often called achievability and visualization by designers—of color transfer onto different materials.
—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 5 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for focuses
concentrates
Verb
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His team of 40 also concentrates on bigger and bigger deals that swell their take from the average directs transaction.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
1 Nov. 2025
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But for the forthcoming 18th volume, Through the Open Window, 1956-1963, which concentrates on Dylan’s earliest recordings during his folk period, the baton was passed to Wilentz.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Focuses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/focuses. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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