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noun

focussing

the concentration of attention or energy on something

In a sentence

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

  • The coach credited the personal best to a season of focussing on hip drive rather than simply adding more weight.

    Fitness

  • Deliberate focussing on a single project got the photographer through a winter when nothing else was selling.

    Photography

  • Studies of deep work describe focussing as a limited daily resource that shrinks with every interruption and rebuilds slowly overnight.

    Psychology

  • The point guard credited her turnaround to focussing on footwork all summer instead of shooting more threes.

    Basketball

  • A year of focussing on three clients rather than three hundred saved the consultancy from closing.

    Business

  • The novelist's focussing on a single afternoon lets a short book carry forty years of one marriage.

    Literature

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