Example Sentences

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He told reporters the talks were focussing on how to "keep the skies, and the seas, and the borders safe in Ukraine".

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2025

While policymakers were focussing on the long term in 2021, they also had a major job shoring up spending in the short term as the Covid pandemic hit activity for a second year.

From BBC • Dec. 24, 2021

These radical thinkers, she felt, were focussing more on problems of representation than on the immediate needs of women in other classes and cultures.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 18, 2016

You were focussing a fugitive idea, a memory.

From Bat Wing by Rohmer, Sax

Indeed, it was as if his whole nature, body, mind, and spirit, were focussing itself upon one passionate desire that his child might live.

From The Brentons by Dexter, Wilson C.