concentrate
verb (used with object)
to bring or draw to a common center or point of union; converge; direct toward one point; focus.
concentrating
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present participleof concentrate.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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The rapid empire building has stirred unease in Hollywood, where filmmakers and other talent worry that concentrating so much production and distribution under one owner could give them fewer places to sell their work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
The path to a safe future, he said, is to “distribute this technology widely and create the right checks and balances, rather than concentrating it in the hands of just a few.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
He also said that the company would be concentrating jobs in key hubs, with global teams mainly in New York and San Francisco.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
"I love Ellie as a person, and as a fighter she's great, but right now I'm concentrating on this fight," Serrano says.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
He had originally proposed the concept in Hereditary Genius as early as 1869—thirty years before the rediscovery of Mendel—but left the idea unexplored, concentrating, instead, on the mechanism of heredity.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
