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refocuses

verb

present tense third-person singular of refocus

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Transform ashes into memorial stones Solidification is a newer alternative to traditional cremation that transforms a beloved pet’s remains into ash memorial stones.

— Yvonne Villasenor, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
And as Aroonpheng spins his narrative into a long, misshapen web, the drama involving Yak vanishes behind a cloud of fog and transforms into the film’s most baffling yet bracing detour.

— Beatrice Loayza, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026

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Saturday’s first day of the Emmys saw awards presented to unscripted series, variety shows and specials shows and variety specials, while Sunday’s show focuses on dramas, comedies and limited series.

— Andrew Dalton, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
Instead, Tehran’s new leverage focuses on the strait that is crucial to global oil and natural gas shipments and was seen as an international waterway before the war began.

— Toqa Ezzidin, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026

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Director Ivan Uryvskyi is candid about how the play recasts the ancient poem’s themes of return and those trapped in exile and captivity.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026
The new edition recasts all 10 songs from the original through a more intimate lens, with Carlile returning to Long Pond Studio in upstate New York to co-produce four tracks with the National’s Aaron Dessner.

— SPIN Staff, SPIN, 13 Aug. 2026

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The initiative aims to bring positivity and hope to children battling critical illnesses.

— Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026
The free meals program aims to combat malnutrition and reduce childhood stunting by providing meals to nearly 90 million students, toddlers and pregnant women.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of aims

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An agent that calls the wrong API or modifies the wrong record creates consequences a hallucinated sentence simply cannot.

— Hemant Kashyap, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
So the team fed AlphaFold versions of a target DNA sequence, along with a guide RNA, the Cas9 sequence, and an enzyme that chemically modifies bases and can stick to Cas9.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 24 July 2026

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Tina Gharavi directs based on a screenplay by Justine Waddell; Haley Bennett stars as Katherine Hilbery, with Lily Allen as Mary Datchet, Elyas M’Barek as Ralph Denham, and Jack Whitehall as William Rodney.

— Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 14 Sep. 2026
Daniel Kaluuya plays her brother, and Chris Rock both directs — returning for his first film since 2014’s Top Five, which also premiered at TIFF — and co-stars as the director of a Dreamgirls revival that could be Misty’s big break.

— Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of directs

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Tornado levels homes in Enid, Oklahoma Residents of Enid, Oklahoma, are surveying the damage on Friday after a massive tornado ripped through the city on Thursday night.

— Jack Moore, ABC News, 24 Apr. 2026
The main difference is that Ruisdael cranes upward, to behold a castle on a hill, whereas Vermeer levels his gaze across open water.

— Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026

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