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focus
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Outcasts United
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She expected them to be on time to practice, to work hard, to focus, and to improve.
Chpt 1

focus = concentrate
And as a women's college, Smith was focused on imbuing its students with the very sort of self-reliance and self-confidence Luma felt she had been deprived of at home.
Chpt 1

focused = concentrating
Beatrice focused her energies on surviving, protecting her sons from recruitment, and getting out.
Chpt 2

focused = concentrated
LUMA MADE THE team the focus of her energies in those early days in Georgia.
Chpt 4 *

focus = center (where attention is concentrated)
Along the way, though, some longtime residents on the board of the community center began to question Holliday's focus on programs for refugees.
Chpt 5

focus = attention
The fact that Luma's program was funded by the Decatur-DeKalb YMCA, which paid the community center for use of its field, didn't prevent the community center from billing itself as a home to a refugee soccer program, even if many of the center's board members would have preferred the facility to focus on programs for what Emanuel Ransom called "real Americans."
Chpt 5

focus = concentrate their attention
But while the failure of Ashton's was a blow to Luma's ego, it also represented an opportunity to focus her life on things that she felt were more meaningful.
Chpt 5

focus = concentrate
She was going to focus all of her energy on her new program and on trying to better the lives of the newcomers whose struggles she felt she understood.
Chpt 5
As his eyes adjusted, a few cars came into focus.
Chpt 7 *

focus = view (a state where something can be seen clearly)
Even from game to game, Luma had to work hard to keep her kids focused on what they had and not on the disparities with the competition in gear, uniforms, and support.
Chpt 7

focused = concentrating
While her sponsors and hosts squabbled, Luma tried to stay focused on her players and their families.
Chpt 9 *
Luma didn't know what she would do for a permanent fix, so she focused on the remaining games, and vowed to work on the field issue over the summer.
Chpt 9

focused = concentrated
If Luma could find a way to keep the Under 15 Fugees focused, and if she could find a way to create a sense of belonging and camaraderie through the team that kept the boys away from corrupting influences in Clarkston, she felt the boys were capable of playing incredible soccer.
Chpt 10

focused = concentrating on the matter at hand
They were focused on the game, lost in it, even.
Chpt 10

focused = concentrating
This was the sight that had drawn her to start the Fugees in the first place, two years back, on a lark and with little appreciation for what she was getting herself into: a group of refugee boys who had survived the unimaginable, strangers now in an unfamiliar land, playing the game with passion, focus, and grace that seemed, for a brief moment anyway, to nullify the effects of whatever misfortune they had experienced in the past.
Chpt 10

focus = attention
When she sensed she was being tested, she responded swiftly—sending kids home or ordering them to run extra laps at the first sign of disobedience or lack of focus, with a fierceness and absoluteness that sometimes made it difficult not to feel sympathy for the boys as they ran headlong into the futility of trying to skirt Luma's iron rule.
Chpt 11

focus = concentration
Two days later, on Wednesday, the boys showed up on time, ran hard, and were focused during their drills.
Chpt 13

focused = concentrating on the matter at hand
By jettisoning the Under 15 team, Luma still wouldn't have time for herself exactly, but she could focus her energies on the kids who were reciprocating her commitment to the Fugees.
Chpt 15

focus = concentrate
After two standard practices that focused on the basics of passing and ball handling, she scheduled a scrimmage between the new Under 15 Fugees and their counterparts on the Under 17 team.
Chpt 16

focused = concentrated
Luma tried to focus on the scrimmage while simultaneously keeping an eye out for trouble.
Chpt 16

focus = concentrate
As diversity becomes the norm, in other words, people cease to focus on it.
Chpt 19

focus = concentrate their attention
Council members grilled her with a series of pointed questions focusing on the restaurant's proximity to the Clarkston International Bible Church, and seemed on the verge of rejecting the request when a lawyer in the gallery—a local citizen with no particular authority—pointed out laconically that the council had no authority to rule on the matter one way or the other, as liquor licenses were issued by the state.
Chpt 20

focusing = concentrating
Luma remained focused on the older boys' scrimmage, but the 13s wouldn't be ignored.
Chpt 22
Where some soccer coaches might have emphasized, say, striking the ball on a particular part of the foot to achieve a specific effect, Luma instead focused on the end result, and graded her players on their ability to find their own personal ways of achieving the end.
Chpt 22

focused = concentrated
Luma urged them to focus.
Chpt 29

focus = concentrate
Tornado Cup Luma knew that if the Under 13 Fugees hoped to compete against the teams in the Tornado Cup, they needed to make some quick improvements, and for that, they had to have an intense and focused week of practice.
Chpt 31

focused = concentrated
When play began, they seemed more focused, more communicative.
Chpt 31

focused = concentrating on the matter at hand
You focus on the game and how you're going to win it.
Chpt 31

focus = concentrate
The extra help has freed Luma to focus her energies on her real love, coaching.
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Definitions:

(1) (focus as in: Turn your focus to question #2.)
to direct attention or effort toward a single thing; or the ability to do so without getting distracted
(2) (focus as in: The focus of our study is...)
where attention is concentrated or directed
(3) (focus as in: bring into focus; or out of focus)
a state where something has come into view or can be seen clearly; or an adjustment made to permit a clear view
(4) (focus as with technical usage)
technical usage typically involves some sense of center or concentration such as:
- physics — a point where things come together such as the point where light rays meet
- geometry — a fixed reference point (as of a parabola)
- geology — the point of origin of an earthquake
See a comprehensive dictionary for other less common meanings.
(5) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

focus in Outcasts United (Edited)

focus
in
Outcasts United
(Edited)