Thesaurus results for FOCUSSES

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 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 The main action takes place over the span of a few weeks in the year 2045 and focuses on married couple Natalie and Asher. — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026 Hoodoo focuses heavily on practitioners’ practical issues and concerns. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026 Instead, the museum focuses on language, relationships, self-mockery, and life’s absurdities, with rakija served to visitors as the ultimate symbol of Balkan resilience. — George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 14 Aug. 2026 Unlike short-form video competitors, Pappu’s view of Shorts focuses on the product in the context of all of YouTube. — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2026 While most of the exhibition focuses on paintings, visitors can also find drawings, sculpture, mixed media works and photography. — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for focuses

concentrates

Verb

The system concentrates solar energy onto a receiver positioned at the top of a 210-meter (about 689-foot) tower.

— Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2026
Capital now concentrates on agentic tools and coordination infrastructure, not traditional junior developer training.

— Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026