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as in to transform
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as in to focus
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Recent Examples of refocus
China became the latest Asian stock market to recoup losses driven by the Iran war, fueling optimism that investors are looking beyond the conflict to refocus on economic fundamentals and corporate earnings.
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Bloomberg News, Bloomberg, 15 Apr. 2026
Between each number, Tetzloff took a moment to refocus his breath before diving into Gershwin’s jazzy lushness.
—Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 14 Apr. 2026
Companies like General Motors, Delta Air Lines, Starbucks, Apple, and Ford all had to pare back and refocus to get healthy.
—Diane Brady, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2026
Clearing even a little of the clutter gives your brain room to refocus on what actually matters.
—Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 13 Apr. 2026
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Bloomberg News, Bloomberg, 15 Apr. 2026
Between each number, Tetzloff took a moment to refocus his breath before diving into Gershwin’s jazzy lushness.
—Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 14 Apr. 2026
Companies like General Motors, Delta Air Lines, Starbucks, Apple, and Ford all had to pare back and refocus to get healthy.
—Diane Brady, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2026
Clearing even a little of the clutter gives your brain room to refocus on what actually matters.
—Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 13 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for refocus
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Wastewater is also reused for irrigation, and the hotel has also started recycling vegetable oils with an organization that transforms the waste into biodiesel.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
14 May 2026
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Technology, desire and collapse Across the Giardini, Maja Malou Lyse’s DIS, Things to Come (2026) transforms the Danish Pavilion into an immersive environment where digital imagery and physical presence collapse into one another.—
Andrew S. Jacobson,
Baltimore Sun,
13 May 2026
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Policymakers certainly ought to focus on this.—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
10 May 2026
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Over the past two decades, schools have started requiring even the youngest children to focus on more challenging academic tasks.—
Stacker,
Hartford Courant,
9 May 2026
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But with the arrival of the next course, bread and butter, I was forced to revise my theory.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
10 May 2026
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The show was extensively revised during a workshop period at the O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
9 May 2026
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The approach was aimed at prioritizing employee safety during the picking and packing of orders and was designed to reduce the distance delivery partners need to travel, enabling faster delivery times.—
Glenn Taylor,
Footwear News,
13 May 2026
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For example, if your average fiber intake is 10 grams per day, aim for 13-15 grams per day for the next couple of weeks.—
Lauren Panoff,
Verywell Health,
13 May 2026
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Absentee voting began in March, and while votes in most races will still count, ballots cast in the affected congressional districts will be voided and recast under the new election schedule.—
Rena Rowe,
The Washington Examiner,
12 May 2026
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The new name, polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, aims to recast the disorder as a complex hormonal imbalance that affects metabolism as well as reproduction.—
Veronique Greenwood,
Time,
12 May 2026
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In a 41-40 win over Notre Dame earlier in the year, Bateman said, York would point at the sky or point at the ground pre-snap to indicate pass or run solely based on how Fighting Irish quarterback CJ Carr was standing.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
8 May 2026
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Sharp antennae point skyward as feathers of adornment.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
1 May 2026
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Now, the Mamdani administration is pushing for additional changes that would readjust the formula to the city’s benefit.—
Cayla Bamberger,
New York Daily News,
30 Mar. 2026
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Designers conceive of collections months (okay, at least weeks) in advance of their show dates, giving them little time to readjust to the outside world.—
Rachel Tashjian,
CNN Money,
10 Mar. 2026
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Without her lenses, the classroom was a soft, velutinous world full of indefinite objects, every landmark reinvented.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 May 2026
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America’s most important innovation has never been a single technology but the capacity to reinvent the institutions of innovation themselves.—
David H. Hsu,
Fortune,
11 May 2026
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“Refocus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/refocus. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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