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Recent Examples of Synonyms for refocusing
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For years, students, teachers and administrators have been working on transforming the riverfront into a living shoreline, with a mini forest of mangroves instead of a leaky, low-lying concrete seawall.—
Alex Harris,
Miami Herald,
27 Jan. 2026 -
For decades the capital had worked like a slowly exploding atom bomb, inhaling poor Filipinos from the provinces and spitting them into distant suburbs, transforming rural barangays into slums of concrete and zinc.—
Sean Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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Kevin Carter | Getty Images Shrinking sales For more than a decade, consumers have been buying fewer groceries from the inner aisles of the grocery store, instead focusing on the outer aisles with fresh produce and protein.—
Amelia Lucas,
CNBC,
31 Jan. 2026
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Unlike many of the new sushi bars that have come to Austin in recent years — Craft Omakase, Endo, Tare, Sushi by Scratch, Tsuke Edomae — Kinsho will offer an a la carte menu instead of solely focusing on omakase dinners.—
Matthew Odam,
Austin American Statesman,
30 Jan. 2026
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Gardner is joining the pilot, headlined by Bloom and Rory Scovel, in recasting.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
27 Jan. 2026
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Five months later, the State Department unveiled a Commercial Diplomacy Strategy for Africa, recasting trade and investment as the centerpiece of engagement.—
Daniele Nyirandutiye,
semafor.com,
19 Jan. 2026
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More Rework and Slower Cycles Supervisors and legal counsel are pulled into multiple review loops, revising letters that were previously quicker to finalize, with routine tasks sometimes taking longer than expected.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
27 Jan. 2026
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Following a string of deaths caused by police pursuits, Milwaukee police are once again revising the department's policy.—
Francesca Pica,
jsonline.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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The Rams are aiming to win and advance to the Super Bowl for the third time under McVay.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Jan. 2026
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The nighttime steppe is an army of archers aiming their electric black arrows directly at you.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Jan. 2026
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A lot of companies are still trying to retrofit AI into existing workflows, while the genuine visionaries are redesigning entire workflows with AI as the foundation.—
Mark Minevich,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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This modularity reflects an increasingly industry trend in flexible robot architecture, where components like hands, arms, or even mobility bases can be switched around for other applications without the need for redesigning an entire system.—
Daniel Fusch,
USA Today,
24 Jan. 2026
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Pretti – a 37-year-old who worked as an ICU nurse at a Minneapolis VA hospital, according to his family – is first seen standing in the street, holding his cell phone in one hand and recording officers while directing traffic with his other hand.—
Thomas Bordeaux,
CNN Money,
25 Jan. 2026
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By the time the script did circle back, Wilde had embarked on a career in directing with the films Booksmart and Don’t Worry Darling.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Jan. 2026
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Instead, each dolphin develops their vocal signature on their own through vocal learning, the process of modifying sound patterns based on social experiences and interactions.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Or modifying a consumer drone into something that resembles a military-grade thermal scanner.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Refocusing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/refocusing. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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