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focus as in: Turn your focus to question #2.
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I find that studying in the library helps me to focus.
focus = concentrate
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The class focuses on classic American literature.
focuses = concentrates (centers attention on)
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This week, I'm focusing on finishing my research paper.
focusing = concentrating
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My phone will be off for the next hour while I focus on an assignment.
focus = concentrate
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You focus on getting better, a'ight?
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focus = concentrate, or look
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I tried to ignore the ache and focus on my classes, but it felt as though I were being asked to sit through a lecture while a wolf gnawed on my jaw.
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focus = concentrate
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To suppress the rising nausea, Kya focused on Sunday Justice grooming himself on a windowsill.
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focused = concentrated
- Often, Liesel would watch him as he focused on reading the paper, completed the crossword, and then started to reread it, front to back. (source)
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They focused only on survival and put their hopes and dreams into their children's and grandchildren's futures.
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focused = concentrated their efforts and attention
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We all exchange terse nods then focus our attention on the temporary stage that is set up before the Justice Building.
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focus = concentrate
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He said this while he was still focused on a comic book he was reading.
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focused = concentrating (still looking at and thinking about)
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First I thought of wearing a very beautiful dress, but then I decided to wear something more modest for the interview, as I wanted people to focus on my message and not my clothes.
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focus = concentrate
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- But I can't read, can't focus on anything. (source)
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I was so focused on telling myself to breathe that I didn't notice Patrick saying my name at first.
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focused = concentrating (on one thing and not paying attention to other things)
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All week, I was unable to focus on anything my teachers were saying.
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focus = concentrate
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He focused on the Snitch clutched in his good hand.
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focused = concentrated
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After focusing on Big Thumb for so long, it was as if the rock had absorbed his energy and now acted like a kind of giant magnet pulling him toward it.
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focusing = concentrating
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The woman, who really wasn't paying attention before, suddenly focuses her attention entirely on him.
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focuses = concentrates
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When Mom told me I was so focused it was scary, I know she didn't mean it as a compliment, but I took it that way.
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focused = paying attention to achieving goals
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By and by your attention becomes so intensely focused that you no longer notice the raw knuckles, the cramping thighs, the strain of maintaining nonstop concentration.
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focused = concentrated
- Then he focused on Jesus bending down, his finger tracing words in the sand at the Pharisees' feet, sending the men scattering in fear. (source)
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He felt dizzy, and couldn't focus his attention.
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His entire attention was focused on the six-inch square of earth in front of him.
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focused = concentrating
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August focused her eyes on the stone wall.
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focused = concentrated (looked with)
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He shook his head, tried to focus his thoughts.
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focus = concentrate
- If only he could make peace with Dana Matherson, even temporarily, then he'd be free to focus his energy on solving the Mullet Fingers dilemma. (source)
- Clutching a robe about her gaunt frame, her unknotted hair hanging long and limp, she tried to focus her dulled eyes on the shocked face of her visitor. (source)
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Almost from the moment they began to drop, they were focusing their Little Doctors on one thing only.
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focusing = concentrating
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His eyes focused on Mama again, a tiny figure in the distance now.
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focused = looked
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She developed the ability to subtract herself in the blink of an eye — one minute she'd be focused on you, the next she'd be elsewhere.
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focused = concentrating
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She turned and looked at him, really focused on him, for the first time since they'd left the house.
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focused = looked closely or concentrated
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I finally look at Peter, and I'm surprised by how hard he's paying attention; his eyes are intent and focused on me like he's actually interested in what I'm saying.
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focused = concentrating
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She did not look over the sea of clouds as the others were doing, but focused her gaze in one direction.
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focused = concentrated
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He sternly told me that I should focus on my education and not let work distractions stand in my way.
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focus = concentrate
- Leon fights back a sob and struggles to find his voice as he searches the ground for something to focus on. (source)
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When I returned to the States, I interned in Washington, D.C., focusing on homeland security issues.
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focusing = concentrating
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I shouldn't let the conversation stay focused on me for too long.
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My mind was more focused on the doings of Richard Parker.
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I'd been so focused on obtaining the stay and then on what to say to Herbert when I got to the prison that I hadn't actually thought about witnessing the execution.
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focused = concentrating (on one thing and not paying attention to other things)
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He blinks hard against the darkness, trying desperately to focus on his arm, his knuckles, anything to know that he is here, in the apartment over the bakery, and not back in the war, in the village, in the fire.
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Focusing his mind straight ahead toward the end of the tunnel, Langdon followed the signs for the Chapter House.
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focusing = concentrating
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I have to stay focused.
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focused = concentrating on the matter at hand
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Thomas snapped out of his daze and focused on Newt, who'd been talking for who knew how long; Thomas hadn't heard a word of it.
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focused = concentrated
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Because we'd been focused on the brain lesions for half our lives, they figured we'd never shut up about them, even as pretties.
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focused = concentrating
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The trance happens when you don't focus on anything, and the whole big picture swallows and moves around you.
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focus = concentrate
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Volkheimer has taken to switching on his field light and focusing its frail beam into the far corner, where eight or nine white plaster heads stand on two shelves, several toppled onto their sides.
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focusing = directing (pointing)
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Focus on the task at hand.
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focus = concentrate
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Those who focus on anger will always be angry.
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focus = concentrate their attention
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I was focused on it and almost didn't notice Marlee sit down beside me.
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focused = concentrating
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The pale blue eyes seemed to focus on Mr. Murry's face.
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focus = concentrate, or look
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She said your head seems to be somewhere else, not focused on swimming.
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focused = concentrating
- 'Preliminary reports are focusing on two pistols,' the anchor confided, just before his image disappeared. (source)
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He turns and focuses on me for what, I'm pretty sure, is the first time all night. After several long moments of standing there being looked at, my eyes fill with tears.
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focuses = looks
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Wind tore at her, but Celaena kept her focus on Nox, falling so fast, so far from her outstretched hands.
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focus = concentration, or look
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I pick up a magazine and flip through it, but my leg is shaking and I'm fidgeting to the point that I can't focus.
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focus = to concentrate, look at; or the act of concentration
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He was hard to look at but I made myself do it, following his eye as it shifted and focused on something behind me.
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focused = concentrated, or looked
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When he looked at it, and he often did late in the evening, he could see desire in the colors and the lines, and if he focused carefully, he could imagine what she had been thinking with every stroke.
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focused = concentrated
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Her mind was still far away. ... Now her focus became closer, much closer. She was looking at me now.
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focus = attention
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They all look like Metias to me, and I have to breathe a little harder, walk a little faster, anything to stay focused.
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focused = concentrating on the matter at hand
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The more I tried to focus on my options of what she might do to me, the more my inner strength drained away.
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focus = concentrate
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Jason blinked, trying to get his bearings. He focused on Piper and made a little choking sound. "What are you wearing?"
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focused = looked
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The linebackers were so focused on me that they had all come up, leaving our tight end wide open over the middle.
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focused = concentrating (on one thing and not paying attention to other things)
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So he decided to focus on how food was grown.
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Sampson had once asked George, who always seemed focused on the goal of making it to college, how he did it.
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focused = concentrating
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Attention focused on Jack.
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As for Barry, he was totally focused on Akivo.
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Rachel Wood's eyes focused for the first time on the three trunk bearers.
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focused = looked and concentrated
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And then, when they finally shivered to a halt, she gave up and focused only on getting off the plane.
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focused = concentrated
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Hideous alien shapes seemed to throng about him, the air was thick with musty smells which sidled into his lungs without identifying themselves, and a low irritating hum kept his brain from focusing.
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focusing = concentrating on the matter at hand
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The old woman's eyes came to a focus upon Beatty.
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focus = look closely
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To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to hand and make it stand in for the whole; but ever since the painting had vanished from under me I'd felt drowned and extinguished by vastness—not just the predictable vastness of time, and space, but the impassable distances between people even when they were within arm's reach of each other, and with a swell of vertigo I thought of all the places I'd been and all the…
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focus = concentrate, or look
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"In remembering to raise the question he prepared in advance, he gains the doctor's full attention and focuses it on an issue of his choosing," Lareau writes.
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focuses = concentrates
- In North Carolina, Enrique focuses on working, on saving money, on cutting down even more on drinking and drugs. (source)
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I play, just focusing on that, until the last bit of life in the car dies, and the music goes with it.
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focusing = concentrating
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He put a finger on either side of the blade and focused intensely, deepening the lines on his forehead.
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focused = concentrated
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I focused on Jorgenson's brand-new boots, then on a pebble, then on my own face floating high above me-the last things I'd ever see.
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focused = looked
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Alyss should have been entirely focused on developing a sound military strategy, but she couldn't help glancing at Dodge every now and again, her attention divided.
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focused = concentrating
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Now Mack focused on her, trying to memorize again every detail of her expression and hair and hands.
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focused = concentrated
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Wally's eyes were focused down, just beyond the edge of the counter, near my waist, and I knew what was coming.
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focused = looking
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The few times I did manage to focus my mind clearly on Nobu, I grew so numbed I seemed to feel nothing at all.
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focus = concentrate
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The kids called me "New York" like folks did in Louisville, but now I kept away from the hang-out crowd and dealt with my music, focusing on tenor sax and trombone, which I picked up in order to play in the marching band.
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focusing = concentrating
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I'd say that to students as a reminder not to focus on little issues, while ignoring the major ones.
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focus = concentrate
- Meanwhile, I tried to focus on the goal: get him to Imperial, get some IVs in him, stop the dehydration that surely must be setting in as this flu ran its course. (source)
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She focused, trying to make sense of what she was seeing. The liquid twisted and coiled into a face: Jefferson Miller, the ghost of the security guard.
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focused = concentrated
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The harder I focused on it, the more the room dissolved around it, until the clay seemed to be spinning the classroom, the table, my chair along with it.
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focused = looked and concentrated
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"Nkondo and Gabriel, more than the others?" he said, slowly bringing his focus onto the present conversation, and me.
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focus = attention
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All of her attention was focused on that empty bed.
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focused = concentrated
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I started to become more focused on the marriage—more focused on my responsibilities to my family.
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focused = concentrating
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Today, when the Lacks brothers talk about Henrietta, they focus on the importance of her contribution to science.
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She hadn't really focused on what a mess he was.
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Let's focus.
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We spent a lot of time in the classroom, where we focused on navy customs and courtesies, the laws of armed conflict, shipboard communication, ship and aircraft identification, and basic seamanship.
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focused = concentrated
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While her sponsors and hosts squabbled, Luma tried to stay focused on her players and their families.
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focused = concentrating
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So I went back to class, ready to focus on my work again …. but it was not the same sanctuary anymore.
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focus = concentrate
- Trying to diminish the size of your tongue, you focus your attention on its components: tip, smooth,-back, bumpy,-sides, scratchy, as noted earlier (vitamin deficiency), roots—trouble. (source)
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Her brain was working at high speed as she focused and absorbed the information from the yellowing pages.
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When he backed away I thought he would see me leaning against the wall, but the snow was thick and his attention was focused on Narciso.
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focused = concentrating (on one thing and not paying attention to other things)
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So I force myself to stay clear and focused.
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focused = concentrated, look at, or paid attention to
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Her mind focused on the value of this troop, seeing what was revealed here about the Fremen culture.
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focused = concentrated
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For the first time, I missed Jim, missed his strength, his ability to focus on nothing but the task at hand.
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focus = concentrate
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focus as in: The focus of our study is...
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Since we're running out of time, let's narrow our focus to just what needs to be done tomorrow.
focus = area where attention is concentrated
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- The focus of this class is classic American Literature.
- My main focus is on getting into a college with a good reputation for preparing students for medical school.
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She likes to be the focus of attention.
focus = where attention is concentrated
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Unless you pulled focus and stopped to examine your surroundings more closely, it was easy to forget that everything you were seeing was computer-generated.
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focus = where attention is concentrated or directed
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The focal point was a pair of statues of angels, flying above a cenotaph in which rested Hole's plaque.
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focal = where attention is drawn
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His accent made him exotic and interesting; his broken arm made him a martyr; his sadism made him a natural focus for all those who loved pain in others.
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focus = place where attention is directed
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As you are aware, you yourself are the focus of Miss Chase's more persistent fixations.
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focus = center
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Students with children of their own appeared on college campuses; bookstores sold out of famous literary works; technological innovation became the focus in factories; and scientific research now enjoyed a sacred halo.
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focus = where attention is concentrated
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Finding nothing, no bait and no new idea, I sat up—only to discover that I was dead centre in the focus of his stare.
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I agreed to represent Trina, Ian, and Antonio, and our office would eventually make challenging death-in-prison sentences imposed on children a major focus of our work.
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Even before Teabing traced the contour for her, Sophie saw it—the indisputable V shape at the focal point of the painting.
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focal = where attention is drawn
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I can't promise we'll succeed in rescuing him, but I can promise this: The entire focus of NASA will be to bring Mark Watney home.
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focus = place where attention is directed
- You know, America, I've been meaning to ask what your focus was as a Five. (source)
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The bike became the focus of a family squabble.
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focus = where attention is concentrated
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Often, with fragile witnesses or young children, they'd plant a person as a focal point to make testifying less scary.
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focal = place to concentrate attention
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The days of the week were written across the top of each page. Underneath were the focus muscle groups. And underneath that he'd listed the specific lifts I was to do along with the reps.
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focus = where attention is concentrated
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Our focus is Health, Education, Leadership, and Mentoring.
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focus = place where attention is directed
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And so when houses were finally fireproofed completely ... They were given the new job, as custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our understandable and rightful dread of being inferior;
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focus = center (where attention is concentrated)
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His focus is one instilled by mentors at the seminary: "Either we are with the poor, or we are not."
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focus = place where attention is directed
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"Not yet," said Brom, "but your very existence is the focus of their battles."
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His primary focus was Josh.
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- We each had to choose a research focus in Erudite initiation, and mine was the aptitude test simulation, so I know a lot about the way it's designed. (source)
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In fact, over time, my bedroom became the focal point of her house tour when anyone came to visit.
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There stood my own little sister in the center of our yard, the focal point of a gleaming black arc of children strung from here to there, silently sucking their sugarcane sticks, not even daring to blink.
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focal = center of attention
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The first group had to be eliminated because they would never give up; they would be our main focus in the coming campaign.
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focus = where attention is concentrated
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And to be honest, the family wasn't really my focus.
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focus = place where attention was directed
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LUMA MADE THE team the focus of her energies in those early days in Georgia.
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You have to understand that the police are severely limited by manpower, and their main focus was protection of those principals you mentioned.
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focus = where attention is concentrated or directed
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A magician can use these artifacts as focal points to work more powerful spells.
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In a space of a few short weeks, he had shrunk, literally collapsing around his lungs as they became the entire focus of his being.
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Enclosed by a hedge lay a series of cobblestone paths that wove among several circular brick planters, each with its own dogwood tree; in the center of the yard, serving as a focal point, was a three-tiered fountain that fed a large koi pond.
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focal = where attention is drawn
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He was looking straight at the policeman, but he felt as if the focus of his eyes had switched to his side vision, and what he saw most clearly was Danneskjold's face watching him with no expression, with no line's, no muscle's worth of feeling.
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focus = where attention is concentrated
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For this broader team, Kamen's event was the main focus.
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focus = where attention is concentrated or directed
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Both widows became the focus of the attention of numerous bored husbands.
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focus = where attention is concentrated
- We were now the focus of the whole restaurant.† (source)
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Inside, the room was round and lined with books, but the main focus was a hole in the middle of the floor, surrounded by a copper barrier; a pole extended down, through the floor and to unknown regions below.†
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It was a strange sensation, a clumsy stumbling falling being caught, the broad, sunlit world narrowing to the dark focus of his cushiony lips on mine.†
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focus = where attention is concentrated
- "You've lost your arm, Bethany," he said gently, "now the focus is on saving your life."† (source)
- Another fact: The boy was the focus of my travels —perhaps the cause of them.† (source)
- She was so close to what she wanted — the focus of her whole existence for more than a year now was justso close.† (source)
- It was magical, and New York was the focus.† (source)
- Jaime was the focus of her obsession.† (source)
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I wasn't the main focus of the group or singled out in an odd way.†
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His father was a strict disciplinarian with a harsh temper, and Goetz was often the focus of his father's rage.†
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focus = where attention is concentrated
- Question four: What is the significance of Jack London's choice in making Buck, the dog in The Call of the Wild, the focus of his novel?† (source)
- Now the focus was land warfare.† (source)
- While they were never officially dating, or each others' "boo" (as she sometimes joked with him over the phone), he was, clearly, a focus of her life.† (source)
- Money became the focus of all their discussions, hers for clothes, his for drink.† (source)
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I'm sorry, but I don't want to go out with a guy whose main focus in life has changed from trying to play college football to trying to chug a six-pack without puking.†
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focus = where attention is concentrated or directed
- Rolf mentioned something about "pride" and "they're only a year older," but Max's main focus was on trying to overcome his nerves.† (source)
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He enjoys his work and wants to be the focus of our attention.†
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The main focus of the search began in the Kitchen, where April was last seen playing tea-the enormous architect's model of the grand house just out of reach.†
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As far as he knew, Berger had not even known of his existence, let alone that he was the focus of intense speculation both at Säpo and at Millennium.†
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It was such a new experience, being a focus of interest; in the ordinary way no one ever paid much attention to me.
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She became the focus of his work and imaginings.†
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Philosophers may well say, and practical men will always support the opinion, that money mitigates many trials; and if you admit the efficacy of this sovereign balm, you ought to be very easily consoled—you, the king of finance, the focus of immeasurable power.
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focus = center
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The first focus of our investigation is the Frontiers of Science.
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focus = where attention is concentrated
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A Union cabinet minister is the focus of attention.
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From now on, your only focus is examining imagery of Ares 3.
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He said he needed a focal point to get the church geared up.
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The focus of his paper involved putting a price on the variables of happiness.
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Now, as he was cast into extremity, despair and death became the focus of his defiance.
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With my focus narrowed, most of the panic was gone.
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Of all the combat zones around the globe, this one has become the focal point.
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focal = relating to where attention is concentrated
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His focus narrowed to the ground in front of him.
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In the past, Max's opponents were already waiting and had provided him with an initial focal point.
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Although the pilot denied knowing what was in the box, he admitted it had been the focus of Langdon's full attention during the flight to London.
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focus = center
- She wasn't looking straight ahead, but sideways, as if the focus of her attention was not in the picture at all. (source)
- Despite the notoriety Tobias now has among the Dauntless, and my new title as That Girl Who Stabbed Eric, we are not the real focus of everyone's attention. (source)
- The flying fish were still coming, but he was no longer interested in them; it was the fish in my hands that was now the focus of his attention. (source)
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Josie felt her cheeks flame as the entire locker room burst into laughter at her expense, and the rude comments shifted focus from Matt to her.
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focus = where attention is concentrated
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Shizuka was now the focus of suspicion.
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Our focus is food.
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He would be, she decided, like the pictures of white beaches that birthing mothers sometimes brought in as a focal point.
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focal = place to concentrate attention
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The focus of Christianity is Man.
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And there was the same postcard rack too, although it seemed to have changed its focus, placing more emphasis on scenic lakes and less on Oral Roberts University.
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This last subject was the focus of his attention, but Max was disappointed to learn that Nix and Valya's knowledge was hemmed by the Alps and the Apennines.
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focus = where attention is concentrated
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La Rochelle, which had derived a new importance from the ruin of the other Calvinist cities, was, then, the focus of dissensions and ambition.
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They were a big focus of our lives and they were family.†
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focus = where attention is concentrated
- En route from Bermuda, he was the focus of intense pressure.† (source)
- This is the longest Barbara has ever been away from Cedric, and, with the central focus of her life absent, there's been some dangerous drift over the past two months.† (source)
- ...[She turns to the audience, and intermittently changes the focus of her attention.† (source)
- Mark my words, Mr. Hovstad—the Baths will become the focus of our municipal life!† (source)
- Suddenly she came toward him, her youth vanishing as she passed inside the focus of his eyes and he had kissed her breathlessly as if she were any age at all.† (source)
- This renovated aspect of what was the focus indeed of the room on a full winter morning threw a smiling demeanour over the whole apartment.† (source)
- Whilst all the landscape was in neutral shade his companion's face, which was the focus of his eyes, rising above the mist stratum, seemed to have a sort of phosphorescence upon it.† (source)
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focus as in: bring into focus; or out of focus
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The bridge collapse brought aging infrastructure into focus as a political issue.
focus = into view (as an area of attention)
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I have to give the camera a little while to focus before I shoot the picture.
focus = adjust its lens to get a clear picture
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The discussion brought into focus an important difference of opinion.
focus = view (as an area of attention)
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The picture is out of focus, but I think I recognize her.
focus = in a state where something cannot be seen clearly
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To rest your eyes while reading, look up and focus on something in the distance.
focus = look (when you look at something, you eye's lens automatically adjusts to put it in focus)
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Focus [the camera] on the trees behind the lake.
focus = adjust its lens to get a clear picture
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Is the picture in focus.
in focus = clear (sharp)
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The telescope is focused on the moon. Would you like to look?
focused = adjusted [the lens] to make an image clear
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The blog is called Family-In Focus. Each entry discusses a common family challenge.
in focus = in a state where something is in view and/or clear
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It is difficult for me to believe that the untroubled young man in that photograph is my father. Fearful and anxious, he comes into focus for me as a weary middle-aged man stockpiling food and ammunition.
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focus = view (a state where something can be seen clearly)
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He touched a drop of marsh water onto the slide, covered it with another, and focused the eyepiece.
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His eyes open sleepily and when they focus on me, he pulls me down for a long kiss.
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He felt his feet hit solid ground, and stood, shaking, as the blurred shapes around him came suddenly into focus.
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focus = view (a state where something can be seen clearly)
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I stared back, trying to make her face come into focus.
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focus = a state where something has come into view or can be seen clearly
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Ender had trouble focusing on Colonel Graff. The man looked far away and very small, as if Ender could pick him up with tweezers and drop him in a pocket.
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focusing = adjusting vision (to see something clearly)
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Things were sliding in and out of focus, and it seemed funny to me that I couldn't run in a straight line.
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out of focus = a state where something can be seen clearly
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I can't truly describe him, I can't get a precise focus: he's blurred, like the face in some wet, discarded newspaper.
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focus = view (a state where something can be seen clearly)
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But the fresh night air was bringing him back from the ether and he could keep his eyes focused.
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focused = adjusted (to see clearly)
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Our destiny is coming into focus.
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focus = a state where something has come into view or can be seen clearly
- Suddenly all that has passed comes into focus as a necessary course of events, and all that promises to unfold has the clearest rhyme and reason. (source)
- It was as though everything in her past snapped into focus. (source)
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Marriage brought the sobering realities of life into focus.
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focus = view (a state where something can be seen clearly)
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But then, suddenly; everything came into focus.
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focus = a state where something has come into view or can be seen clearly
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For a moment, Eddie stared, his mouth slightly open, his eyes bringing the scene into tighter focus.
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focus = view (a state where something can be seen clearly)
- Slowly, the greenish shapes came into focus. (source)
- He squinted, trying to make out what was on the other side, then gasped when it came into focus. (source)
- It takes all his concentration to bring the texts into focus. (source)
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Then she grabbed her own glasses out of her pocket and put them on, and her myopic eyes were able to focus.
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focus = adjust (to see clearly)
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And the advert said "DREAM HOLIDAY, THINK KUONI IN MALAYSIA" and behind the writing there was a big photograph of 2 orangutans and they were swinging on branches and there were trees behind them but the leaves were blurred because the camera was focusing on the orangutans and not the leaves and the orangutans were moving.
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focusing = with lens adjusted for a clear image
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Her eyes focused.
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focused = adjusted (to see clearly)
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Hour after hour, in Aibileen's kitchen, she reads her writing and I type, the details thickening, the babies' faces sliding into focus.
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focus = view (a state where something can be seen clearly)
- He was two years older than she was, and as she drove along this roadway-in-time, he slowly came into focus once again. (source)
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I strained to focus my eyes on Mother.
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focus = adjust (to see clearly)
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Then Hephaestus came back into focus.
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focus = view (a state where something can be seen clearly)
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Everything was coming into sharp and terrifying focus; the story was starting to make sense: Ulysses was a superhero (probably), and Phyllis Buckman was his arch-nemesis (definitely).
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focus = a state where something has come into view or can be seen clearly
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Smiling hard as our mother tried to focus her camera.
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focus = adjust a lens for a sharp image
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A quick change of magnification brought them into close focus—two massively real rockets thundering through the sky.
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focus = view (a state where something can be seen clearly)
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They didn't show the man's face in focus.
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in focus = so it could be clearly seen
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Drawing a deep breath, she forced herself to bring the camp back into focus; it was like turning a camera lens.
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focus = view (a state where something can be seen clearly)
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At her tone, at once intimate and formal, a terrible sadness came over me, and when we looked at each other it seemed that the whole past was redefined and brought into focus by this moment, clear as glass, a complexity of stillness that was rainy afternoons in spring, a dark chair in the hallway, the light-as-air touch of her hand on the back of my head.
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focus = a state where something has come into view or can be seen clearly
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He'd try to bring the night into focus, willing coherence, but the effort would only cause distortions.
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But strangely, he still had a difficult time focusing on her; she seemed almost to shimmer in the light and her hair blew in all directions even though there was hardly a breeze.
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focusing = adjusting vision (to see something clearly)
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When I pull my gaze back and focus my eyes, I can see my own reflection in the glass.
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focus = adjust (to see clearly)
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Somewhere between the various thoughts about my mother—somewhere past the discomfort in my lip—there nestled a pleasant thought I tried again and again to bring into focus.
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focus = view (a state where something can be seen clearly)
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But the picture is so small I have to hold it practically at the end of my nose to make out who is who. It hurts my eyes to focus on it, so mostly it stays in the drawer.
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focus = adjust vision to see something clearly
- The woman beside him was looking at him closely, as if trying to focus. (source)
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Christoph taught Deborah and Zakariyya how to use the microscope, saying, "Look through like this … take your glasses off… now turn this knob to focus."
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focus = adjust a lens for a sharp image
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And slowly the world around him came into focus.
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focus = a state where something has come into view or can be seen clearly
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As his eyes adjusted, a few cars came into focus.
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focus = view (a state where something can be seen clearly)
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I went back to the telescope and tried to use it to look at Coalwood, but discovered I couldn't focus it close enough.
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focus = adjust a lens for a sharp image
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David must have been testing the range of his camera, keeping the subject the same and varying the focus, the aperture, the available light.
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focus = lens adjustment
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Burned out, adrift on a sea of uncertain synapses, a place where your eyes refuse to focus and your brain refuses to function.
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focus = adjust (to see clearly)
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I squint at the name until it comes into focus.
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focus = view (a state where something can be seen clearly)
- Then they could see Uncle Andrew, very vague and shadowy, but getting clearer and more solid-looking all the time, just as if he were coming into focus. (source)
- My next is of blunt, consuming rage as Keenan's face swims into focus. (source)
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As I neared the Powstancow Bridge and the soldiers came into focus, I slowed my pace.†
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focus = a state where something has come into view or can be seen clearly
- Everything is blurry but slowly the world comes into focus.† (source)
- "Kris, what on earth — " The scene was coming into focus now.† (source)
- Taking out the spyglass he had brought with him, Roran put it to his eye and adjusted it until the sloops came into focus not four miles astern and approaching faster than he would have liked.† (source)
- Then they slowly came into focus.† (source)
- Shiva's eyes, coming into focus, asked the question.† (source)
- I opened my eyes, squinting down at my watch until it came into focus.† (source)
- The good thing, though, is that it seems like I'm just now coming into focus to myself—you know, beginning to see myself more clearly.† (source)
- The picture comes into focus.† (source)
- Her plain, pasty features came into focus through my tears, and I saw that her expression was one of exasperation.† (source)
- In a moment, the image came into focus, green and black on the screen.† (source)
- Background turned gray, then came into focus and color.† (source)
- The world came into focus.† (source)
- My vision coming into focus, I cast my eyes about.† (source)
- The face came into focus just in time.† (source)
- His face came into focus; it was set like statuary.† (source)
- His eyes came into focus on Hodge's jaw and seemed to lock there.† (source)
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As his eyes regained their focus he remembered who he was, and where he was, and recognized the face that was gazing into his own; but somewhere or other there was a large patch of emptiness, as though a piece had been taken out of his brain.
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focus = ability to see clearly
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Automatically the fortifications of the port area of Latakia came into focus in Mark's mind.†
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focus = a state where something has come into view or can be seen clearly
- He was walking beside her but his mind was thinking of the problem of the bridge now and it was all clear and hard and sharp as when a camera lens is brought into focus. (source)
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And still the family stood about like dream walkers, their eyes focused panoramically, seeing no detail, but the whole dawn, the whole land, the whole texture of the country at once.
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focused = adjusted (to see clearly)
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Then I did the same for Herbert (who modestly said he had not my administrative genius), and felt that I had brought his affairs into a focus for him.
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focus = view (a state where something can be seen clearly)
- Unfortunately, it's black and white again and a little out of focus.† (source)
- Three figures, two large, one smaller, but only one of them was in focus, was more than an outline or a shimmer.† (source)
- She leaned toward him slowly, until her face was too close to be in focus.† (source)
- The agony blinded her; the world went in and out of focus.† (source)
- Far below, Evangeline directs with a hand, her brow furrowed in focus.† (source)
- I stumble along in the sewers, my vision going in and out of focus, one of my hands pressed hard against my side.† (source)
- Already, things looked different—the fleur-de-lys pattern on her wash bag, the chipped plaster frame of the mirror, her face in it as she brushed her hair, all looked brighter, in sharper focus.† (source)
- Root's eyes narrowed to slits, bringing his prey into sharp focus.† (source)
- By looking across the lake and letting his eyes go out of focus he could visualize her face, hear her laugh, and he sat chatting in his mind with her, asking how she was doing, telling her of his life now, and before long he was surprised to see that the meat had cooked.† (source)
- The mercenary drew a deep breath through his nose, and his glassy sunken eyes came into sudden, sharp focus.† (source)
- There was no color to her everything was in black-and-white and her image kept flickering in and out of focus.† (source)
- Candles sputtered into flame in the corners of the room, and what seemed to be a translucent orchestra of strange musical instruments shifted in and out of focus, playing themselves, while shadowy couples went spinning and gliding across the now stone floor.† (source)
- I only knew, as I lay in my bed at the top of the house, that certain moments from long ago stood out in focus against the blur of years.† (source)
- I was disoriented, as though my world were blurred and leaning to the left, like a photograph snapped from a twisted angle and out of focus.† (source)
- Clary amused herself by letting her eyes fade in and out of focus, watching the glamour appear and disappear.† (source)
- My head was sort of out of focus.† (source)
- Then his eyes go out of focus and he shuts up for a minute.† (source)
- His black eyes burned in their sockets, out of focus, or seeing things that weren't there.† (source)
- I remember pulling my hands back to my sides, just keeping my eyes on the stars, concentrating on bringing them in and out of focus.† (source)
- There were a figure and a face, albeit out of focus.† (source)
- My eyes moved out of focus.† (source)
- Everything else faded out of focus.† (source)
- but there's an idea taking shape in my head, some old memory that disappears whenever I will it to take form, like those Magic Eye games where you can only see the hidden shape when your eyes aren't in focus.† (source)
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focus as with technical usage
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The satellite dish focuses the signal into a relatively narrow beam.
focuses = concentrates
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The focus of a parabola is a fixed point on its interior that is used in the formal definition of the curve.
focus = a fixed reference point
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The satellite focuses the signal into a narrow beam.
focuses = concentrates
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One of the pilots had used a watch crystal as a magnifying glass to focus the sun and start a fire so they didn't have to eat the lizards raw.
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focus = concentrate at one spot
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But it has a tight enough beam. Well-focused. You can aim it and make a three-inch circle of light on a wall a hundred meters off.
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focused = concentrated at a single point
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I decided that my best plan would be to wait for a really sunny day and then use my glasses to focus the sunlight on a piece of my clothing and start a fire.
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focus = concentrate at one spot
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He'd never tried to do anything so focused and intense —but he shot a bolt of white-hot flames at the chain suspending the engine block above the Cyclops's head—aiming for the link that looked weaker than rest.
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focused = concentrated at a single point
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For the first time on the island, Piggy himself removed his one glass, knelt down and focused the sun on tinder.
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focused = concentrated sunlight rays by pointing them at the same spot
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I summon all my own strength, focus it like a laser beam into the fingers and palm of my right hand.
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focus = concentrate at one spot
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A true master could just say water and create something totally unrelated, like a gemstone. You wouldn't be able to understand how he had done it, but the master would have seen the connection between water and the gem and would have used that as the focal point for his power.
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focal = center of concentration
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Perenelle quickly became familiar with the ancient systems of magic and began to practice in small ways, developing her skills, concentrating on how to channel and focus the energy of her aura.
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focus = concentrate at one spot
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The powers on a scope refer to the magnification of the focal length.
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focal = the distance between the center of the lens and where it is looking
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I told Dick to hold the flashlight, focus it.
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focus = concentrate at one spot
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…others explore even remoter possibilities such as focusing the sun's rays through lenses suspended thousands of kilometres away in space, or producing artificial earthquakes and tidal waves by tapping the heat at the earth's centre.
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focusing = concentrating to a single point
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Making straight for the steep cliff, where the churchyard hangs over the laneway to the East Pier so steeply that some of the flat tombstones, thruffsteans or through-stones, as they call them in Whitby vernacular, actually project over where the sustaining cliff has fallen away, it disappeared in the darkness, which seemed intensified just beyond the focus of the searchlight.
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focus = where light is concentrated
- That unblinkingly vivid Japanese sun seems the blazing focus of the glassy ocean's immeasurable burning-glass. (source)
- Galileo's Illuminati, however, saw perfection in the ellipse as well, revering the mathematical duality of its twin foci.† (source)
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At the focal point of two beams, it sets up a field in which molecules can't hold together anymore.
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focal = where things come together
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Eragon drew upon their combined power and focused it on the words.
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focused = concentrated at a single point
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Piggy stood behind him, islanded in a sea of meaningless color, while Ralph knelt and focused the glossy spot. Instantly the fire was alight, Piggy held out his hands and grabbed the glasses back.
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focused = concentrated sunlight rays by pointing them at the same spot
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You can't see through the shield to aim and focus the beams, but since the generator of the Ecstatic Shield is always in the exact center, it isn't hard to figure it out.
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focus = concentrate at one spot
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One, two, four, seven of his fighters were blown away. It was all a gamble now, whether any of his ships would survive long enough to get in range. It would not take long, once they could focus on the planet's surface.
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focus = concentrate force at one spot
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Maybe tear big chunks out of them by reflecting the planet's own gravity back on itself, only from another direction, and focused down to a smaller point.
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focused = concentrated at a single point
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The pyramid had been ripped from its source of power, the desert, and in front us loomed the default gateway for North America, the tall white obelisk that was the most powerful focal point of Ma'at on the continent: the Washington Monument.
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focal = area where power is concentrated
- The foci of infection are steadily extending.† (source)
- A few foci have been fully reabsorbed, the pocket has grown smaller and is more sharply defined, which, being a well-informed patient, you know indicates healing.† (source)
- He listened to his relative talk about the disease that formed the common professional bond for everyone here, and of people's susceptibility to it; about Hans Castorp's own modest, but chronic case, about how the bacillus irritated the cells of the tissue in the bronchi and air sacs of the lungs, about the formation of tubercles and the production of soluble intoxicating toxins, the deterioration of the cells and the process of caseation, which if it continued to petrify into chalky scar tissue meant a beneficial arrest of the disease, but if it went on to build ever-larger soft foci, created cavities that ate away at everything around them and finally destroyed the entire organ.† (source)
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- You understand you're not the focus of any criminal charges, correct?† (source)
- But what fascinates me most, and is the focus of my research, is their molecular evolution rate.† (source)
- The flashlights attached to the soldiers' guns focused on the young woman holding the nuclear bomb.† (source)
- I had trouble focusing on the screen, and leaning against the doorframe, I carefully responded, telling him okay.† (source)
- Setting his fables in the palaces of yesteryear, Rosotsky lit them in the hazy aura of dreams, shot them in the soft focus of memories, and capped the first, second, and third acts with close-ups of his starlet: Anna aspiring; Anna distraught; Anna at long last in love.† (source)
- Marine Corps boot camp lasts thirteen weeks, each with a new training focus.† (source)
- Lale pushes his way through a crowd to reach its focus.† (source)
- His eyes were rimmed with black shadows and seemed to have difficulty focusing.† (source)
- Naturally, my thoughts were focused on our kids, on Cassie and Chris, but at the same time, in the back of my mind, I was sure they were both okay.† (source)
- Out of the corner of my eye, I could see them all just fine, but if I focused on any one of them in particular, they started looking ...transparent.† (source)
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- We also focused on the children who, like Joe Sullivan, Ian Manuel, and Antonio Nunez, had been convicted of non-homicide offenses.† (source)
- I blinked, letting my eyes focus, then looked up to find Camilla Traynor standing over me.† (source)
- It was almost possible to forget everything if I just focused on the scent of lavender and clean cotton and the beeswax that made the wood glow.† (source)
- Darla's neck whipped around searching for the bee, and I straightened out my focus for the rest of the day.† (source)
- The whole article seems to be focused on you.† (source)
- Thomas focused on Gally.† (source)
- VO (as camera focuses on STEVE's face)† (source)
- He looked around, seemed to have trouble focusing.† (source)
- In particular, he focused on the thirty-six-minute gap between the time Hansford was shot and Williams's call to the police.† (source)
- The reporters, for their part, had focused their attention on the wife of the accused man, who wore a knife-pleated skirt on this day and a blouse with long darts through the shoulders.† (source)
- I try to focus everything on this sound.† (source)
- Let's focus now on the UK.† (source)
- It showed the whole campus, then it zeroed in on the field of portables and the focal point of the sinkhole.† (source)
- I'm going to ignore the incredibly lame statement Francis just made and focus on what he said right BEFORE that.† (source)
- The strangest person in the room, apart from myself, was Jess Clark, and my amazement gradually accumulated focus on him.† (source)
- You kind of have to tune it all out and just focus on the conversation and the questions being hurled at you.† (source)
- So instead, Josie found herself veering drunkenly from the soft-focus moments with Matt to the macabre.† (source)
- And Christmas is the focal point for the children in our church.† (source)
- She had been trying to think up an invention that would block the smell of horseradish from reaching one's nose, but she was too nervous about meeting Dr. Montgomery to focus on it.† (source)
- Apparently, without the target below to focus on, Russell had suddenly discovered how high he was.† (source)
- Her focus narrowed to the small, black dot in the center of the target.† (source)
- Things are starting to come back into focus now, but ...why am I crying?† (source)
- I tried to empty my mind and focus on steadying my arm, creating an imaginary line that extended from my shoulder through the sight to my target—a man's head.† (source)
- Art historians knew the fountains marked the exact geometric focal points of Bernini's elliptical piazza, but it was an architectural oddity Langdon had never really considered until today.† (source)
- The album had many snapshots — all the poorly focused pictures of school events and birthday parties.† (source)
- I can't focus on anything but what's coming.† (source)
- And so Sticky focused on Corliss Danton, who was back in class this morning, looking no worse for wear.† (source)
- It's true what they say, it's a trance state, giving birth or being there, you lose track of the rest of your life, you focus only on that one instant.† (source)
- Eyepiece pressed tight, I adjusted the focus.† (source)
- It was only now that Emily Tallis became aware of the focus of their interest.† (source)
- It's not surprising that food has become the focus of an international movement.† (source)
- Hana found it harder to pay attention or stay focused on her lessons.† (source)
- I tried hard to imagine cool things to distract myself, but my legs began to tremble, and my eyes would not focus.† (source)
- "I will—" He paused again, straightened, and focused his eyes on some distant, invisible point.† (source)
- Then focused through a film of blood on a beloved child.† (source)
- Focus every ounce of my energy on that single spot.† (source)
- It must be torture for her to try and focus like this.† (source)
- He focused his senses, scanning all around him the way Aunt Hannah and Lev and Martin did, checking over his shoulder to make sure he wasn't being followed.† (source)
- With that worry off my mind, I could focus on Steve and my real problem: whether to reveal the truth or not.† (source)
- Her mother's eyes slowly focused on her.† (source)
- In the event that a few solinium flares refused to be focused, they would be contained by the time-field.† (source)
- The only difference was now the Nazis' focus had shifted.† (source)
- I mean, he also almost destroyed the world, but probably best not to focus on that bit.† (source)
- Live In The Present, Focus On The Now instead of grieving for what I could never have?† (source)
- I blink at Jenny as she swims into focus.† (source)
- On the second shot he looked at the target, into the target, drew and held it for half a second—focusing all the while on the dirt hump—and when he released the arrow with a soft thrum he almost didn't need to watch it fly into the center of the lump.† (source)
- I focus on the large branch coming off the tree's trunk and I try to break that branch away but it won't come.† (source)
- Word got round fast enough, but the talk mostly focused on Miss Lucy herself rather than on what she'd been trying to tell us.† (source)
- Jeff clicks on the TV, and Ellen Abbott—and Amy—buzz into focus.† (source)
- Faces passed by as if on a whirling merry-go-round but they vanished before he could focus on them, pin them down, bring them into sharp portrayal.† (source)
- It was a focused glass, to be used for emergencies by the royal family and their intimates.† (source)
- Even still, there are those who have made Ramiro's ordeal a focal point to attack me and my book.† (source)
- I stared upward, managed to focus on him clearly at last.† (source)
- Always, in his experience, the light appeared when there was focus.† (source)
- It took her a while to focus.† (source)
- Only the sight of distant tesla trees as the unerring focus of the aerial discharge was a bit unnerving.† (source)
- The other dog owners were occupied with their own dogs farther down the beach, a mother not far away was focused on helping her toddler make a sandcastle, and the few sunbathers scattered about were lying flat on their backs, eyes closed.† (source)
- The sudden threat of the draccus brought me back into focus.† (source)
- The focus of the room from this perspective, the TV and VCR, balanced on a too-small wooden stand, were in the southwest corner of the room.† (source)
- "Why are you calling me here so late?" he asks her, distracted, his eyes still focused on the computer screen.† (source)
- Now if we read the story through the filter of daytime talk shows and social work classes, we not only miss the focus of the story, we misunderstand it at its most basic level.† (source)
- A "warm and fuzzy" embrace won't get the job done, she argues when I call, pooh-poohing the notion that doctors should focus on patients' lives rather than just treating their symptoms.† (source)
- First there was the power that accrued to him naturally through his ability to bewitch men and women alike with false candor and warmth; second, the power of social approbation that he now focused upon her.† (source)
- Now we focused on hydrographic reconnaissance.† (source)
- Saeed's mother thought she saw a former student of hers firing with much determination and focus a machine gun mounted on the back of a pickup truck.† (source)
- My 101st guard Danny had said, "When you let yourself lose your focus, you make big mistakes."† (source)
- I drew the baby time and again, sometimes focusing on her wide, bold eyes, sometimes on her tiny hands, sometimes on the way her whole body arched when she rested on your knee.† (source)
- It was he who formed the very concept of "humanism"—that is, a view of life that has the individual as its central focus.† (source)
- If I knew a mortal of that sensitivity, that pain, that focus, I would make him a vampire in an instant.† (source)
- I have to focus when I'm with Kamal.† (source)
- Another was to focus NFL front office minds on how to allocate their dollars.† (source)
- A note on the lectern said the slide projector in the middle of the table was already loaded and focused, and gave the order of the slides, which had been delivered from the National Reconnaissance Office.† (source)
- I couldn't focus on the film, something about the apocalypse and only one man who could save all humanity.† (source)
- We were taught to focus on the meaning of each word.† (source)
- But when her eyes focus on it, she sees nothing except the oscillating door, same as before.† (source)
- The only time Jaime ever bothered to focus on the reality of his house was when he saw Amanda walking hand in hand with Nicolas.† (source)
- She didn't lose consciousness; the seizures were focal (half a grand mal), originating in the left side of her brain and disrupting only the right side of her body.† (source)
- He says the crank allows him to focus on one thing for a long time.† (source)
- The kids don't focus on the letters at all because Oscar is so interesting.† (source)
- It's so important, instead, to find people who support you and focus on them.† (source)
- Ignoring Mudd's anger, Booth focused on the priceless news the doctor had brought back from Bryantown.† (source)
- Borrowing her habits from work, Theresa tried to focus on other tasks instead.† (source)
- SYMPTOMS: Nausea, Stomach "flipping", Elevated heart rate, Light-headedness, Inability to focus† (source)
- We cannot afford to have you consumed by doubts when your strength and focus are most needed.† (source)
- Then I realized that none of the people were moving, i focused more closely, trying to pry some clue from their stiff postures.† (source)
- He told my family what a class act I was and how my determination last year had become the focal point for Alabama this season.† (source)
- With the stereoscope back home, Jane had always had trouble focusing, bringing the pictures together exactly.† (source)
- He tried to focus on her, but past and future were merging into the present, blurring her image.† (source)
- Judy's eyes focused slightly.† (source)
- By the third time he heard it, however, he had seen Crispy Pork Rinds, and though he didn't read all that well, understood clearly his role as the target of Sarah Byrnes's and my incisive journalistic focus.† (source)
- A flash of shame bloomed in my face, because when I focused my eyes, there, suddenly, in front of me, was Magda.† (source)
- She especially liked the practice of staying focused, of eliminating everything from her mind except breath.† (source)
- The red numbers on the clock swam into focus.† (source)
- For another, she's so focused on the next part of the story that she can barely think of anything else.† (source)
- Either way, he had the scalpel, it was right there in his hand, waiting to carve.... Dan forced himself to focus, to look again.† (source)
- I dreamed of ascending Everest myself one day; By the time I was in my early twenties, climbing had become the focus of my existence to the exclusion of almost everything else.† (source)
- Dr. Henry, working with such calm skill, his movements focused and precise.† (source)
- Greg's eyes came back into full focus and continued up my legs, past where his hand had been allowed.† (source)
- I roll my eyes slightly, but Vanessa's focused on her notes.† (source)
- If our complaints have a focal point, it would have to be the TV set, where the outer torment lurks, causing fears and secret desires.† (source)
- Never in his life had he focused so nearly to a person, as if she were a puzzle, which once touched together might show life's greatest secret.† (source)
- ...So you see, Anita, what intrigues me about this new concept of teaching English—Whole Language—is that it has its focus on literature, and in a way that I think young people will find very interesting.† (source)
- They were so focused on making the world a better place.† (source)
- It could, or should perhaps, have made things worse, become a bitter focus for their several sorrows.† (source)
- Our line of sight chooses an area of concentrated brightness and, focusing there, silently descends to it-a sea of neon colors.† (source)
- While Hollywood garnered most of the headlines, defense spending remained the focus of the local economy for the next two decades, providing about one-third of its jobs.† (source)
- With the new plan, only one task unit on Team FOUR would focus on South and Central America.† (source)
- The silence of the listeners became strict with abruptly focused attention, cigarettes were unlit, and drinks stayed on the tables; and in all of the faces, even the most ruined and most dull, a curious, wary light appeared.† (source)
- The last of the sun's rays are focused on an overhang of frayed clouds.† (source)
- When he arrived, Bill Volt took him to Room F, the focus of the deaths, so that Dalgard could inspect the monkeys.† (source)
- " Sakena shakes her head in exasperation, and adds: "The international community should focus on education.† (source)
- Suddenly a single face falls into focus.† (source)
- I focused on the words to the beautiful old poem, and sincerely hoped that tonight actually would be the beginning of something special.† (source)
- I'm doing my best not to focus on those chichis as I take a step forward.† (source)
- At times it seemed to her they were so focused on disease that patients and suffering were incidental to their work.† (source)
- What it meant to be the focus of the gods' attention, to be their instrument, used to change the shape of the world.† (source)
- In an effort to distract myself, I focus on the reflection in the mirror.† (source)
- He's chatting with Mom for a minute, and I know Mom is trying to focus, to lift a corner of her veil so that she'll be able to see the big things.† (source)
- Ben slowly started to focus her through his burgundy fog, and just as he opened his lips to voice the words that had formed in his brain—"My God, child, what happened to you?"† (source)
- I want you to notice how anxiety caused by a lack of money is affecting them in real ways, and how once you give them the money, they can focus on real and important issues in their world.† (source)
- It was a two-year school with a focus on communication arts.† (source)
- Inigo's eyes began to focus again, not well, not perfectly, but enough to see the Count's blade as it approached his heart, and Inigo couldn't do much with the attack, parry it vaguely, push the point of the blade into his left shoulder where it did no unendurable harm.† (source)
- He had no idea how to steal a sound, even the smallest one, for the Soundkeeper always had at least one eye carefully focused on him.† (source)
- Cedric's ardor and ability to focus helped him accumulate a loose-leaf notebook full of A papers.† (source)
- The far corners of the room sprang into focus.† (source)
- The quick glimpse of Lorena put Dish in such perplexity of spirit that he could hardly focus on the question.† (source)
- The features of her face snapped into brilliant focus; I saw she was terrified of something.† (source)
- "What the—" He looked left, then right, his eyes focusing on me like they never had before.† (source)
- I lean my head back and shut my eyes, but this results in disastrous spinning, so I open them again and try to focus on the feet dangling from the end of the bed.† (source)
- Then they had to focus, cultivate, and maintain those people's aggressiveness, give them a temporary substitute to practice on.† (source)
- One of them singled out Billy's face for a moment, then focused at infinity again.† (source)
- I was suddenly her focus of the general meaninglessness—not for myself, not for any quality of my large, shaggy body or my sly, unnatural mind.† (source)
- Yet he was, as one commentator writes, "the principal architect of the foundations of scientific medicine," the first to propose that the basic units of biological life were self-reproducing cells, and that the study of disease should focus on changes in the cell.† (source)
- It does so by artificially holding constant every variable except the two he wishes to focus on, and then showing how those two co-vary.† (source)
- After the fourth son had died, Mark was still just three, and maybe it is true that Momma made him the baby again, making him her greatest responsibility, the focus of so much of her attention, her life.† (source)
- Their eyes do not focus correctly-shifty-eyed-and they hold their mouths slack, not tight-jawed masculine.† (source)
- When the bowl was set in front of him, Lump ate slowly, and with absolute focus on the task at hand.† (source)
- "I wanted to tell you I was getting off at Souillac," Jean-Luc is saying when I am able to focus on him, and not my complete and utter lack of recourse if he starts trying to kill me, "but I was afraid you'd feel embarrassed."† (source)
- "Mr. Moritz," wrote Levy, "whose debut novel was emboldened by his eschatological speculations, has here shifted his focus to pure scatology.† (source)
- Max shuddered and focused his eyes on the dark hedges and lawns all around them.† (source)
- After dating him for two years, he was becoming the focal point of my thoughts.† (source)
- There had been just one point when his streaming eyes had tried to focus on her, and then he had stepped around her and gotten on with his work.† (source)
- When she reaches the left side of the grand room, she opens her eyes and focuses on a heavyset man in the second row.† (source)
- By the tenth time I passed her, my vision had stained red and I was boiling with focused fury.† (source)
- She stared at it, her eyes focusing intensely.† (source)
- He sat in his car for a moment, thinking, trying to collect his thoughts and get his mind focused on a contested estate worth $20 million.† (source)
- His typewritten speech lies before him on the lectern, but he is not focused on the words.† (source)
- I need to focus on finding Paige.† (source)
- With independence proclaimed, confederation—a working union of the colonies—had become the focus of "spirit" animating the delegates.† (source)
- The monster had turned its head to focus on Charles, who was the closest.† (source)
- He tunes the sound down and goes back to the chair, focusing his eyes in concentration on the screen.† (source)
- I saw him look quickly up at her and then focus, or try to focus, on me as I advanced.† (source)
- She took Jamie with her to her mother's house, so that I could focus all my thoughts and care on Tom.† (source)
- She blinked several times, and her uncle snapped into focus.† (source)
- But close, damn it, Eve thought, closing her eyes to bring the woman she was coming to know so well into full focus.† (source)
- Stocks are bound to react to the news, but the gains may be tempered by the announcement that the firm's Ohio plant will close in the interests of focusing on the Raison Vaccine, developed by the Bangkok facility.† (source)
- But at least, the hero could understand the focus of the emotion.† (source)
- Plus, he couldn't exactly focus on there actually being a future anyway, what with his imminent demise on the horizon.† (source)
- You just need to focus on being like you used to be.† (source)
- He couldn't focus on anything they were saying until he heard "so I reserved you a motel room.† (source)
- She didn't dare venture any closer to the edge for a better look, but as her eyes adjusted to the darkness, more shapes sharpened into focus.† (source)
- Baugh thinks commercial ventures will focus primarily on marketability, and so are likely to adopt the technology to home in on markets they seek to target: "We see this a little bit on radio right now, so that various radio stations are tailored to particular markets.† (source)
- Somehow, during the intermission, the seating got switched around (and in Josh's defense I think it was Beanie who did the switching) so I just decided to totally ignore Josh and focus all my attention on the band performing on the stage (which as it turned out were pretty good).† (source)
- "Who're you, ma'am?" he asked as his eyes focused.† (source)
- Quality is just the focal point around which a lot of intellectual furniture is getting rearranged.† (source)
- I looked into the crowd, trying to focus upon their faces, hearing someone yell, "Here come the cops," and others answering, "Let 'em come!"† (source)
- Alexander Conklin turned back to the window, his eyes focused on the black enameled door across the way.† (source)
- The attorney also focused on Pickney's Treaty, the Treaty of 1819, and the fact that according to the documentation taken, the slaves are Spanish subjects.† (source)
- But the feeling of the general public — bolstered by the press's focus on the "poverty-stricken" Catherine O'Leary and the "drunken" firefighters — wasn't sympathetic at all.† (source)
- They watched as the viewer automatically moved around the capsule, focusing on the surface of the metal.† (source)
- After these preliminaries, we focused on the critical issues: the armed struggle, the ANC's alliance with the Communist Party, the goal of majority rule, and the idea of racial reconciliation.† (source)
- "Can we f-focus on the important problem, please?" he said curtly.† (source)
- He'll be very focused," and with that, Cesar backed into a pile of avocados that had been stacked in a tall pyramid.† (source)
- The world swims into focus.† (source)
- The Howards fretted; Riddle looked small and old; Kurtsinger had the inward-focused look of someone at prayer.† (source)
- Was a rig at focal point of biggest reflector and Loonie assistants believed doubletalk about astronomical purpose—a new wrinkle in radiotelescopes.† (source)
- They scan the beach, illuminating shells and sleeping gulls, then focus on her.† (source)
- The two spoke quietly, so focused on each other that a darkling could have easily flown down and taken them both.† (source)
- I had to focus on the mission.† (source)
- Her eyes were in rebellion against focus, and she felt as if she were floating through the moonlight.† (source)
- Steve paused, then switched the focus off of Mother's total lack of compassion.† (source)
- She saw his bleary brown eyes focus upon her without expression.† (source)
- She looked neither right nor left, eyes focused straight ahead, her face glowing with the quiet joys of Sunday, her day.† (source)
- After so much noise, and after all the attention that had been paid in recent weeks to Third Sister, all focus now shifted to Grandmother.† (source)
- Marijke tipped her head slightly, and in that moment Dart lost focus on everything except her face.† (source)
- It would allow the rest of the team to focus on the more easily accomplished goals.† (source)
- Focus ...focus ...think about Steve, who'd be there when she landed.† (source)
- He pressed his eye against the peephole and watched the moving night, turning the big plastic dial to full focus, high resolution, and he watched Quang Ngai move.† (source)
- I had to focus to keep my grip from tightening to a panic cramp on the oar.† (source)
- When he took his seat at the table, he had no intentions of even actively participating in the discussions, let alone becoming the focal point of the defense plan.† (source)
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