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as in to transform
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as in to focus
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Recent Examples of refocus
Altman is trying to light a fire under his team to refocus on OpenAI’s core ChatGPT offerings over the coming weeks.
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Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2025
Their answers, recently published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, say a lot not just about this exoplanet, but about how scientists should refocus their hunt for alien life.
—Regina G. Barber, NPR, 12 Dec. 2025
The summit’s comeback is in response to high demand to refocus on the thriving touring industry.
—Evan Burke, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2025
Prince William will head to Brazil next week for an award ceremony for his multimillion-dollar environmental prize, hoping to refocus attention away from his uncle Andrew and one of the most bruising royal scandals in recent history.
—Freddie Clayton, NBC news, 1 Nov. 2025
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Ugg has since transformed its cozy shoe collection, debuting fresh silhouettes each winter that reliably find a place in everyone's closet.—
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But if needed, the purse can transform into a crossbody with the attachable 23-inch adjustable strap.—
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After thanking his fellow nominees, his team and Marty Supreme director Josh Safdie, Chalamet focused his attention on Kylie.—
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This includes entrepreneurs working on healthcare solutions and projects related to patient care, life sciences, community health, nutrition and health-focused sustainability.—
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The department has also revised its deployment decision matrix during red flag conditions, allowing for earlier and heavier pre-deployment of resources when extreme winds, low humidity and high temperatures converge.—
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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which determined each year's nominees until they were deposed as the deciding committee in 2022 in the wake of a scandal, revised its rules around animation in 2014.—
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In addition to bills aimed at saving Coloradans money, there will be more 50 criminal justice bills aimed at making the state safer.—
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By combining a rotating detonation engine with a dual-mode ramjet inlet, engineers aim to close what is often called the efficiency gap that limits the performance of current hypersonic missiles.—
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The role was recast, but after a couple of days of rehearsals, the producers urged him to return.—
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In others, they are recast as controversial.—
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Some will laugh at the suggestion and scroll through their social media apps to find a clip to point at and chortle.—
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Throughout training camp, and even into the regular season, there were many speculating that the Browns weren’t giving Sanders a fair shot at earning the right to start under center, and fingers started to point at the head coach.—
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The key, however, is to readjust how your brain gets rewards and deal with the stress that might motivate alcohol use, not just to try to cut back on drinking, Knowles said.—
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Yet surely whoever stepped in would need a decent amount of time to readjust and recalibrate, right?—
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But now the smallest cosmopolitan city in the world—as the community of 58,000 inhabitants describes itself—is reinventing itself.—
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Here's how eight top corporate leaders navigated change to reinvent their companies.—
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“Refocus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/refocus. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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