2010年11月8日 · "Focussed" probably came about because "focused" can be analysed as "fo-cused" or "foc-used", because the sequence of sounds is fairly uncommon, so the clarity of the spelling is a bit tenuous.

2019年2月1日 · After viewing a couple of threads on the Internet, I found that both the legitimacy or the explanation of "focus on" (active voice form) and "be focused on" (passive voice form) seemed controversial.

I found the word “ laser-focused on the bottom line” in the following sentence of the New York Times (August 6) op ed titled, “Dream, Baby, Dream!” “We also know – look at Syria – dictators who have spent decades ruling through fear do not go quietly into the night any more than great powers readily abandon their profitable dominions. And I thought these finance guys were hard ...

Possible Duplicate: “Focussed” or “focused”? The double consonant The rule that I learned was that when you have a short vowel in the last syllable, you double the last consonant before adding the ending. Thus "cut" becomes "cutting", or "beget" becomes "begetting". According to this rule, "focus" should become "focussing".

2012年1月30日 · I'm looking for a better adjective that means focused in the sense of "intense concentration" like an elite warrior in battle. I guess it doesn't even need the sense of having blinders on, more about

2014年12月1日 · Relevant terms suggested in the questions What is the term describing someone who has interest in only a narrow field, and nothing else? and Single word for people who are like “a frog in the well” include confined, insular, one-track mind, monomath, limited, narrow, single-minded, narrow-minded, razor-focused, laser-focused, together, small-minded, …

2014年2月4日 · I'm looking for an idiom or saying that I could use when people are focusing too much on small details and not seeing the big picture. A couple that come to mind are "being penny-wise and pound fo...

2020年8月20日 · Not focussed enough for ELU; writing advice belongs perhaps on Writing (though perhaps not focussed enough for there either) or a writers' discussion group.

2013年3月30日 · I know I've seen a word that describes a person who has a high perception of details (for example, seeing specific information in a log file), but I can't recall it now. Insights?

2020年12月10日 · Sample sentence: (may not be factually true) "The American Federation of Labor ___ campaigned for higher wages throughout its existence." Words like "intently" don't embody what I'm looking for; they don't connote industry towards a singular goal; and they have the extra meaning of eagerness and attention (human qualities), while the word I am looking …