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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 filing also details the company's restructuring plan, which includes discontinuing investment in the patch pump program and refocusing on core business areas.
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Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 6 Feb. 2025
Away from the pitch, the Columbus Crew has refocused its community outreach efforts on investing in youth soccer.
—Andrew King, Axios, 21 Feb. 2025
Unlike López Obrador, however, Sheinbaum has expressed interest in restoring a more meaningful collaboration with the United States against cartel activity, for instance by refocusing law enforcement on the entire structures of Mexican criminal groups, not just their top commanders.
—Vanda Felbab-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2025
Germany: With elections just weeks away, Friedrich Merz, the front-runner for chancellor, is refocusing his stump speech away from immigration.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
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Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 6 Feb. 2025
Away from the pitch, the Columbus Crew has refocused its community outreach efforts on investing in youth soccer.
—Andrew King, Axios, 21 Feb. 2025
Unlike López Obrador, however, Sheinbaum has expressed interest in restoring a more meaningful collaboration with the United States against cartel activity, for instance by refocusing law enforcement on the entire structures of Mexican criminal groups, not just their top commanders.
—Vanda Felbab-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2025
Germany: With elections just weeks away, Friedrich Merz, the front-runner for chancellor, is refocusing his stump speech away from immigration.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for refocus
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Garrett would transform the Eagles' defense into something even more fierce.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
1 Mar. 2025
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The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, or PURA, will be transformed into a quasi-public authority and the current PURA chair, Marissa Gillett, will continue in her position as chief regulator of whatever agency rules.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
1 Mar. 2025
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The partnership started in 2024, focusing on creating exclusive trading cards and memorabilia that highlight the team's successful history in the sport.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
2 Mar. 2025
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Small-cap companies tend to focus on niche markets with plenty of room for growth.—
Paulina Likos,
CNBC,
1 Mar. 2025
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The settlement also revises the penalty structure for a school that exits the ACC’s grant of rights, a term of art that refers to a school permitting its intellectual property and media rights to be used by the conference and its business partners.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
4 Mar. 2025
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After the order was signed, the NCAA revised its own policy on trans athletes in women’s sports, though the revision has been seen as controversial by some.—
Scott Thompson,
Fox News,
4 Mar. 2025
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The killers included white policemen, sheriffs, businessmen, even a legislator—all part of the Jim Crow system aimed at disenfranchising Black voters.—
Essence,
Essence,
10 Mar. 2025
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Eisenhower contributed to the culture of fear with his own investigative program aimed at federal workers.—
Beverly Gage,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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There is no length societies will not go to, no absurd logical leap people won’t take to recast our simple, human act of survival as something dirty and shameful.—
Amanda Nguyen,
TIME,
3 Mar. 2025
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Among Season 2’s changes, the role of Pete Plenty Clouds has been recast following the death of Cole Brings Plenty, who played a sheep herder in the first season.—
Cerys Davies,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2025
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The signing was abruptly scrapped after the meeting descended into finger pointing over Russia and its unprovoked invasion of the country, and whether Zelenskyy had properly thanked the American president.—
Graham Kates,
CBS News,
5 Mar. 2025
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These two latin terms are the roots of the word equilibrium, one of Murano’s starting points this new season.—
Alberto Calabrese,
Vogue,
4 Mar. 2025
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Well-known for her use of out-of-the-ordinary materials over the years, like scarab wings and ancient mammoth ivory, van der Velden rose to the challenge of reinventing that most classic of stone in her own, original way.—
Kate Matthams,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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This season–and for the first time since its debut in 1969–the hero handbag is reinvented in a reversible icy blue and pretty pale pink–two of spring’s hautest hues to take note of now, and then add to your already overflowing Rabanne shopping cart later.—
Laura Jackson,
Vogue,
7 Mar. 2025
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That tech was then modified and used to execute the Zero Day attack.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
4 Mar. 2025
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Not to be redistributed, copied, or modified in any way.—
Tim Stevens,
Ars Technica,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Refocus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/refocus. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.
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