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has been focusing
  • present perfect progressive of focus (3rd person singular).

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Wall Street has been focusing on the company’s next-generation painkiller Journavax, as well as its IgA nephropathy treatment.

From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026

China has been focusing on the Middle East as part of its Belt and Road Initiative, a vast global infrastructure project developed over the last decade under President Xi Jinping.

From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025

The deal marks GIP’s latest push into infrastructure needed to support artificial intelligence, an area the infrastructure investor has been focusing on lately.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Hogne says he feels "a responsibility" in creating these videos and has been focusing on trying to make the videos as accurate as possible, "especially now that so many millions of people are watching them".

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2025

Rohde has been focusing on finding ways to change that, in California and around the world.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2024