All 29 Uses of
focus
in
Outcasts United
- She expected them to be on time to practice, to work hard, to focus, and to improve.
Chpt 1 (definition 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 (definition 1)focused = concentrating
- Beatrice focused her energies on surviving, protecting her sons from recruitment, and getting out.
Chpt 2 (definition 1)focused = concentrated
- LUMA MADE THE team the focus of her energies in those early days in Georgia.
Chpt 4 (definition 2) *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 (definition 1)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 (definition 1)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 (definition 1)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 (definition 1)
- As his eyes adjusted, a few cars came into focus.
Chpt 7 (definition 3) *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 (definition 1)focused = concentrating
- While her sponsors and hosts squabbled, Luma tried to stay focused on her players and their families.
Chpt 9 (definition 1)
- 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 (definition 1)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 (definition 1)focused = concentrating on the matter at hand
- They were focused on the game, lost in it, even.
Chpt 10 (definition 1)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 (definition 1)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 (definition 1)focus = concentration
- Two days later, on Wednesday, the boys showed up on time, ran hard, and were focused during their drills.
Chpt 13 (definition 1)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 (definition 1)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 (definition 1)focused = concentrated
- Luma tried to focus on the scrimmage while simultaneously keeping an eye out for trouble.
Chpt 16 (definition 1)focus = concentrate
- As diversity becomes the norm, in other words, people cease to focus on it.
Chpt 19 (definition 1)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 (definition 1)focusing = concentrating
- Luma remained focused on the older boys' scrimmage, but the 13s wouldn't be ignored.
Chpt 22 (definition 1)
- 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 (definition 1)focused = concentrated
- Luma urged them to focus.
Chpt 29 (definition 1) *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 (definition 1)focused = concentrated
- When play began, they seemed more focused, more communicative.
Chpt 31 (definition 1)focused = concentrating on the matter at hand
- You focus on the game and how you're going to win it.
Chpt 31 (definition 1)focus = concentrate
- The extra help has freed Luma to focus her energies on her real love, coaching.
Chpt Epil. (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (focus as in: Turn your focus to question #2.) verb: to concentrate, look at, or pay attention to
noun: the act of concentration, or the ability to concentrate
(to concentrate is to direct attention or effort towards a single thing)
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(2) (focus as in: The focus of our study is...) where attention is concentrated or directed
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(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