Example Sentences

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"The metallic tip acts like an antenna and focusses the electromagnetic field in a tiny area below its apex."

From Science Daily • Nov. 20, 2024

The effect is comparable in certain respects to when a camera focusses on one subject and blurs out the foreground and background.

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2024

“This shocking news focusses our minds on Michael’s wife Clare and their sons,” said Roy Taylor, a professor of medicine and metabolism at Newcastle University who co-authored “The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet” with Mosley.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 7, 2024

This latest research focusses on how this happens at the structural level.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2023

For him the light focusses now to one vision, Shot through its beautiful heart with black terror, Terror from weakness, remorse and leave-taking.

From Songs, Sonnets & Miscellaneous Poems by Runciman, Thomas