How to Use home in on in a Sentence
home in on
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The males will then change their tunes and try to home in on the clicking females in order to mate.
—Brian Resnick, Vox, 6 May 2024
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Credit-card companies are homing in on the premium travel segment, going above and beyond to appeal to their highest-flying customers.
—Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 18 July 2024
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Video of the attack shows rounds hitting the water as the drones home in on the Ivanovets.
—Joseph Ataman, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
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Grann homes in on a bunch of characters in and around the towns of Gray Horse and Fairfax, and Scorsese does the same.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023
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The agency has homed in on the cinnamon specifically as the source of the lead.
—Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 16 Dec. 2023
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To track the problem, researchers are now homing in on these seaborne flecks from more than 300 miles away—in space.
—Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 26 Apr. 2023
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This error results from homing in on a tiny slice of the graph and ignoring the rest.
—Jeremy P. Shapiro, The Conversation, 2 May 2023
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Many of them keep logs for years that can be cross-referenced to home in on bite windows.
—Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 25 Apr. 2023
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Then-Sony boss Amy Pascal challenged them to stop focusing on the jokes and home in on the characters and the heart.
—Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2023
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Find a way to home in on one or two specific paths to make more useful headway.
—Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 16 Apr. 2024
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For each iteration, the AI can home in on the pathways most likely to lead to success.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 12 Oct. 2023
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Our best advice is to start slow and work your way up, homing in on what type of dosing your dog should get each and every time.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
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Adults looking to home in on their artistic side can also check out classes.
—Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2024
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This creates a living map that anglers can use to further home in on a fishing spot.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 22 May 2024
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The key, when waffling over whether to speak out, is homing in on consistency.
—Jane Thier, Fortune, 8 June 2023
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And your phone can now home in on a lost remote with your phone, rather than digging frantically through the couch cushions.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2023
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Residents calling in to report noise complaints often cannot home in on the source.
—Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
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Researching products beforehand can help you home in on the smartest buys.
—Nick Guy, wsj.com, 17 Sep. 2023
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Jann leads me through the hubbub, homing in on a crumpled, hairless version of myself in a wheelchair.
—Minrose Gwin, New York Times, 18 May 2024
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These examples show that humans who are not hard of hearing can home in on the melody of speech, a key component of the speech-to-sound illusion.
—Ben MacAulay, Popular Science, 22 June 2023
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This is another area that marketers should really home in on this year.
—Esther Flammer, Forbes, 5 May 2023
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Republicans have already homed in on the migrant crisis to attack Democrats ahead of the 2024 elections.
—Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023
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A lot of Shakir’s investments over the past five years have specifically homed in on the digital health space and the intersection of AI.
—Byjohn Kell, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2024
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The tradeoff is that the experience is less controlled, but those who go along for the ride can home in on certain characters or emotions.
—Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2024
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This season promises to home in on the friends-to-lovers dynamic between fan favorites Penelope and Colin.
—Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, The Week Us, theweek, 6 May 2024
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Something your party has been homing in on on the campaign trail is voting rights and reproductive rights.
—Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
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First used in Afghanistan, the bombs home in on coordinates with the help of GPS signals, greatly boosting accuracy.
—Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
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There are some remarkable choices made in the latter half of the movie that home in on the beauty and allure of the sport without ignoring its brutality.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2023
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Rock and pop historians love to home in on particular years.
—David Kirby, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
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By 2020, the Department of Justice had begun to home in on the poultry-processing industry.
—H. Claire Brown, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2023
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