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as in to transform
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as in to focus
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Recent Examples of refocus
The trip aims to refocus attention away from fallout over a fatal shooting by federal immigration officers in Minnesota.
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Seung Min Kim, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2026
Tesla’s push to refocus on humanoid robots and autonomous vehicles may be headed for a slower start than CEO Elon Musk’s bullish timelines previously promised.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2026
Doing so would make way for a faster, safer and vastly cheaper alternative, while allowing the agency to refocus on R&D and space science.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 21 Jan. 2026
Pruning helps the orchid refocus energy on healthy growth and boosts chances for future blooms.
—Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 20 Jan. 2026
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Seung Min Kim, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2026
Tesla’s push to refocus on humanoid robots and autonomous vehicles may be headed for a slower start than CEO Elon Musk’s bullish timelines previously promised.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2026
Doing so would make way for a faster, safer and vastly cheaper alternative, while allowing the agency to refocus on R&D and space science.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 21 Jan. 2026
Pruning helps the orchid refocus energy on healthy growth and boosts chances for future blooms.
—Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 20 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for refocus
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Paris — Gisèle Pelicot emerged as a global feminist hero in 2024 by transforming her horrific, personal story into a public battle against rape culture.—
Saskya Vandoorne,
CNN Money,
12 Feb. 2026
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The modern workplace has a strong flavor of poor management, with poor leadership quickly transforming what started as a good job into a bad one, with burnout and heavy workloads following soon afterward.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
11 Feb. 2026
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While other popular series for pre-school age kids focus on education, this one is more focused on movement.—
Kara Nesvig,
Parents,
14 Feb. 2026
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On Friday, two senior DHS officials told NBC News that the agency has no immediate plans for more large-scale immigration operations focusing on specific cities.—
Natasha Korecki,
NBC news,
14 Feb. 2026
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Texas Legislatures must repeal and revise all radical education reform bills in 2027, and give the power over public education, private schools, and homeschools back to parents, teachers, and communities.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Feb. 2026
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics also revised down prior payroll estimates by 898,000 jobs between April 2024 and March 2025.—
Benzinga,
Freep.com,
14 Feb. 2026
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The company aims to maintain production continuity to assist workers with repetitive, physically demanding tasks while upholding quality and safety standards.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Feb. 2026
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While the rest of the Orlando locker room will take some time off during the week-long break to prepare for the final stretch of the regular season, Richardson will be out west aiming to live up to the dunk contest legacy of his father.—
Jason Beede,
The Orlando Sentinel,
11 Feb. 2026
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Subsequent border clashes with Cambodia allowed Anutin to recast himself as a wartime leader after his popularity initially slipped because of floods and financial scandals.—
GRANT PECK,
Arkansas Online,
9 Feb. 2026
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Timothy Busfield allegations The actor, who is accused of inappropriate physical contact with two child actors, has maintained his innocence and argued that the allegations are an act of retaliation after the boys were recast on the show.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
6 Feb. 2026
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In this model, a problem is represented as a collection of tiny magnets called spins that can point either up or down.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Feb. 2026
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Other posts have included a medium expressing her feeling that Guthrie is close by and a woman using astrology to point her viewers in the direction of what may have happened.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
7 Feb. 2026
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The key, however, is to readjust how your brain gets rewards and deal with the stress that might motivate alcohol use, not just to try to cut back on drinking, Knowles said.—
Madeline Holcombe,
CNN Money,
9 Jan. 2026
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Yet surely whoever stepped in would need a decent amount of time to readjust and recalibrate, right?—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
24 Nov. 2025
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Not every show needs to reinvent and revolutionize Broadway.—
Rod Stafford Hagwood,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Feb. 2026
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Not just as an isolated set of islands, distinct from our wider restaurant culture, but happily mixing with it, and sometimes even reinventing itself along the way.—
Chris Morocco,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Refocus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/refocus. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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