refocuses

present tense third-person singular of refocus

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • The 26-foot-tall bronze sculpture depicts a male figure that transforms into tree branches housing various bird species.
    Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • This mix of coffee, garlic, paprika, brown sugar, and sea salt transforms average steaks, ground beef, or pork into flavorful centerpieces.
    Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The organization focuses on the big disasters that often grip the headlines, such as wildfires, floods, and hurricanes – but also offers information about preparing for winter storms, tsunamis, tornados, lightning, hail and extreme heat.
    Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • His focuses span from those two to things like police-community relationships and supporting victims of crimes.
    David Clarey, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Her work recasts Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces with Black protagonists, reclaiming a space in Western art history that has long excluded the Black experience.
    Yola Robert, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The style, which launched at the end of March, recasts the Gazelle with a natural crepe sole and a silk base embossed with tonal Clot iconography.
    Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The third amendment, set for a vote, from Wilson, modifies federal statutes related to military bases.
    Rachel Schilke, The Washington Examiner, 10 Sep. 2025
  • If the administrative law judge finds in favor of the petitioners on any of the issues raised, or finds the DNR did not comply with some aspect of state law, then the project can’t move forward unless the DNR modifies the permit.
    Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 16 June 2024
Verb
  • Through counseling, peer support groups, life skills education and direct outreach, the organization aims to provide stability, healing, and a sense of visibility to children often overlooked by social systems.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Gilman aims to reopen the indoor space by the end of October.
    Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Physicists have observed that a proton’s excited states, or resonances, remain influential even when probed at very high energies, a finding that revises previous expectations about the building blocks of matter.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
  • In addition to that particular month’s jobs information, the report also revises up or down the previous two months’ jobs totals.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Freddie Francis, the veteran schlockmeister who also lensed Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991), directs the beautiful absurdity.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The executive order directs the Department of Energy to propose a national recycling policy by January 18, 2026.
    Kathryn Huff, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The factory that manufactures this set recycles and reuses 99% of the water.
    Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Its body recycles urea and other nitrogenous wastes into proteins to stave off muscle loss.
    Gloria Dickie, Outside, 24 Sep. 2025
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“Refocuses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/refocuses. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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