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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 cause could be the leadership of Police Commissioner Jessie Tisch — who’s clearing out dead wood and, driven by data, refocusing the NYPD on its core mission.
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New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 7 Mar. 2025
Wentworth had previously unveiled a plan to turn the company around, partly by refocusing on its historic work as a retail pharmacy operation.
—Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 6 Mar. 2025
Gascón apologized but in the wake of the scandal, Netflix refocused its awards campaign on Saldaña’s performance.
—Annie Aguiar, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2025
Elliott believes that Phillips 66 should refocus on its refining business, mirroring the strategy successfully executed by Marathon Petroleum following its 2020 spin-off of Speedway.
—Joe Cornell, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
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New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 7 Mar. 2025
Wentworth had previously unveiled a plan to turn the company around, partly by refocusing on its historic work as a retail pharmacy operation.
—Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 6 Mar. 2025
Gascón apologized but in the wake of the scandal, Netflix refocused its awards campaign on Saldaña’s performance.
—Annie Aguiar, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2025
Elliott believes that Phillips 66 should refocus on its refining business, mirroring the strategy successfully executed by Marathon Petroleum following its 2020 spin-off of Speedway.
—Joe Cornell, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for refocus
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The floor, transformed into a gymnasium, set the stage for a rock-band performance complete with cheerleaders, while performers in basketball uniforms moved through the scene.—
Tiana Randall,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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After living in eight different houses in six states, Jena Salmon transforms an 1980s ranch-style home in her native Lone Star State.—
Diana Oates,
Southern Living,
13 Mar. 2025
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Moyes is likely to spend the summer focusing on improving the squad’s attacking output.—
Patrick Boyland,
The Athletic,
14 Mar. 2025
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The first episode focuses on Jamie’s arrest, from the cops’ sudden, early-morning arrival in his home to a climactic interrogation scene.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
13 Mar. 2025
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The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to curtail a lower court’s ability to issue a national injunction, hatching a novel legal strategy in its bid to radically revise a bedrock American principle: birthright citizenship.—
Syra Ortiz Blanes and,
Miami Herald,
15 Mar. 2025
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Consider postponing important launches to a later date and instead use the time to revise existing projects.—
Danijela Pilic,
Glamour,
13 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 drummer was pointing his finger at a long-haired guitarist holding a red Gibson ES-335 with a Bigsby tailpiece.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
16 Mar. 2025
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Welcome back, welcome home Hundreds of fans decked out in Dodger blue crammed into Tokyo Haneda Airport’s arrival hall dreaming of pointing at and snapping a photo of the team or their favorite player.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Mar. 2025
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Since the mid-Nineties, he’s repeatedly reinvented R&B, hip-hop, and pop, lacing classics by the likes of Aaliyah, Justin Timberlake, and Jay-Z with skittering beats, future-shock synths, and his outrageous ear for samples and hooks.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
19 Mar. 2025
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Kloss is a serial entrepreneur who continues to reinvent herself every decade.—
Cherie Kloss,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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So, by modifying mouse genes to mimic these changes, the researchers have successfully engineered a living model of mammoth-like traits—a first-of-its-kind experiment in de-extinction science.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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But while public opinion has swayed towards Trump on border security and deportations, polling shows that a majority of Americans disapprove of the president’s position on modifying birthright citizenship, with a recent Pew survey measuring 56% opposed to his executive order and just 43% in favor.—
Syra Ortiz Blanes and,
Miami Herald,
15 Mar. 2025
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