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rivets

verb

present tense third-person singular of rivet

as in focuses

to fix (as one's attention) steadily toward a central objective everyone riveted their eyes on the trick that the magician was performing on stage

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Luke Montrose, a professor at Colorado State University whose research focuses in part on the impact of wildfire smoke on disease risk, said glutathione has anti-inflammatory properties.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
The beginning of the advertisement focuses on Miestowski reaching for a driver in a golf bag.

— Mark Harris OutKick, FOXNews.com, 23 Aug. 2026

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Dairy products including milk, cream, whey and milk protein concentrates.

— Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 19 Aug. 2026
Boards and executives should be able to see how AI is being used, where the risk concentrates and how value is tracked without slowing every decision to a crawl.

— Patrick Pugh, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

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