Example Sentences

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Police have focussed their search on the Serranía del Perijá, a mountainous area straddling the Colombia-Venezuela border.

From BBC • Nov. 2, 2023

“I don’t think voters have focussed on this race and they might not focus on this race until after the Fourth of July,” Mr. Diede said.

From Washington Times • Jun. 3, 2022

Since mid-April, Russian forces have focussed much of their firepower on the east for what has become known as the “Battle of the Donbas”.

From Reuters • May 15, 2022

What the video ignores is that many of the security concerns surrounding Huawei have focussed not on backdoors that are being actively exploited but on poor cybersecurity practices that could enable a future attack.

From The Verge • Jan. 4, 2022

In that page he seems to have focussed the essence of our characteristics, whilst appearing only to delineate our human and equine possibilities.

From In Bohemia with Du Maurier The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences by Moscheles, Felix