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noun

focusing

the concentration of attention or energy on something

In a sentence

Six example sentences with focusing, each labelled with its topic.

  • Ten minutes of deliberate focusing on one task beats an hour of switching between three, as any interrupted student learns.

    Psychology

  • The team's focusing on a single customer type for one quarter did more than two years of adding features.

    Startups

  • The coach credits the win to focusing: one lift, six days a week, and nothing else in the program.

    Fitness

  • Focusing on the ten largest accounts lifted revenue faster than any of the new products the sales team had pitched.

    Business

  • Her teacher insisted on focusing: one bar, played slowly fifty times, before any attempt at the whole passage.

    Music

  • The Stoics recommended focusing only on what lies within your control, and letting the weather and other people go.

    Philosophy

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