sharp focus

collocation in English

meaningsofsharpandfocus

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sharp
adjective
uk
/ʃɑːp/us
/ʃɑːrp/
having a thin edge or point that can cut something or make a hole ...
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focus
noun
uk
/ˈfəʊ.kəs/us
/ˈfoʊ.kəs/
the main or central point of something, especially of attention ...
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(Definition ofsharpandfocusfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsharp focus

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Thissharpfocuscan be exhausting over a period of time.
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The three books under review and the essays in the fourth help bring these disagreements intosharpfocus.
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Since only dendritic branches that were insharpfocuswere drawn, this reconstruction is not complete.
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The analysis brings intosharpfocussome crucial factors that have a direct bearing on the social trade-off involved in the project choice.
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A perspective on the end-of-life brings our own mortality intosharpfocusand disturbs our senses of purpose and order in life.
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Most of these schemes involved an element of repewing, which brought intosharpfocusthe deeply political issue of who sat where, and why.
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Many are by the author, and are not insharpfocus.
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Today's professors generally worked hard, and withsharpfocus, when they were students, and probably accumulated as many definitive performances as the next person.
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In sum, we laud the target article for bringing the concepts of cognitive coordination and context into asharpfocusand thereby generating specific, testable hypotheses.
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Although the present work does not involve any primary research, it brings tosharpfocusthe inherent strengths and weaknesses of various approaches employed to study deforestation.
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Being widowed is a state that can bring intosharpfocusthe absence of the need to give care or, indeed, the absence of the person who delivered such care.
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West provides considerable evidence for his assertions, yet one wonders whether thesharpfocuson class does not sometimes blur other important, even if situational, factors in politics.
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The cease-fire has brought intosharpfocusa great deal of violence in, and between, both communities.
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There have been, however, certain weaknesses in the industry and events over the past few years have brought them intosharpfocus.
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That fundamental weakness brings intosharpfocusthe need for a statutory scheme.
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The following comparisons bring the picture intosharpfocus.
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Both the refinancing and the cost escalation schemes throw this problem intosharpfocus.
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The current problems have thrown intosharpfocusthe fact that the way in which dentists are paid is not all that it should be.
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However, it brings intosharpfocusthe importance of trade.
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Keeping thissharpfocuson health in the health programme is not going to be easy.
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