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"text": "Again, if the plane of the impressed couple intersects the mean plane between N and C, it will envelope the cone whose focals are ON, ON′, and whose internal axis is therefore OA.",
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"ref": "2000, Sirona Knight, Celtic Traditions: Druids, Faeries, and Wiccan Rituals, page 193",
"text": "Choose your focals to blend well with the intention of your magical work or ritual.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2019, Faith Hunter, Circle of the Moon, page 27",
"text": "And no witch leaves behind focals.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022, Tracy Deonn, Bloodmarked",
"text": "I use focals for aura work sometimes.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"An object that is used to focus concentration when performing magic."
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"Wicca",
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"ref": "1992, Merrill-Palmer Quarterly - Volume 38, page 198",
"text": "As predicted, focals who were paired with peers produced significantly higher levels of reasoning at posttest ( M = 35.34, SD = 4.44 ) than did focals paired with adults.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1996, Ronald J. Heslegrave, An Exploration of Psychological and Psychophysiologial Measures as Predictors of Successful Performance Under Stress, page 69",
"text": "Thirty-one percent of the focals rated as low transformational by subordinates at time 1 were engaging in two of these three leadership/management styles, and 54% of the focals rated as low transformational were engaging in only one of the three styles.",
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{
"ref": "2006, Alison E. Cook, The Ontogeny of Play in Infant Female Bonobos, page 48",
"text": "As this study covered 46 individual play behaviors, I did not have time to statistically analyze each individual behavior against all age intervals, for all three focals.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "2019, Allan H. Church, David W. Bracken, John W. Fleenor, Handbook of Strategic 360 Feedback",
"text": "Relevancy provides focals motivation to change by making the links clear between their behavior and the success of the organization.",
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}
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"ref": "2007 Spring, Keith L. Woodman, “Nothing Weak About It: Thriving in a Weak-Matrix Project Environment”, in Ask Magazine, page 47",
"text": "Attempting to balance priorities across the exploration, science, and aeronautics programs requires constant and complex negotiations betwen the center focals, the projects they represent, and Langley's engineering directorates.",
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{
"ref": "2012, Raul Valverde, Information Systems Reengineering for Modern Business Systems., page 251",
"text": "Consolidate all focals' requirements: To be done by the Operations Manager.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022, Asian Development Bank, Mainstreaming Water Resilience in Asia and the Pacific",
"text": "Providing technical support to regional climate and WSG focals of all operational divisions on water resilience will amplify the larger pool of project officers.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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],
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{
"ref": "2007, David Weinberger, Everything Is Miscellaneous",
"text": "Gesturing at the cleanliness of the design, Medill says, “Originally we had 'focals,'“—signs that call out special offers—“but they blocked eyeballs.”",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"A sign or similar type of marketing material designed to draw attention to special deals."
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{
"ref": "1997, Lewis Acrelius Froman, Language and Power, page 100",
"text": "We become \"native speakers,\" but variably with respect to numerous valued/powered criteria of truth/goodness/beauty (focals) and their derivative values which \"leave\" \"some” more valuable ( as speakers ) than others.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022, Celestina Robertson, Cut Flowers: Bloom Gardener's Guide, page 25",
"text": "When using supporting flowers, consider their size and shape in relation to the focals and how the colour supports and enhances them.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"The central or most important element of something; a focal element."
]
},
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"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1978, New Orleans region transportation study, page 29",
"text": "In the Visual Survey Analysis Report, focals are divided into four categories; visual, historical, symbolic, and cultural focals. Focals might correspond to the Kevin Lynch definition of landmarks.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"A major point of interest; an attraction."
]
},
{
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"English terms with quotations"
],
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{
"ref": "1995, Roy G. D'Andrade, The Development of Cognitive Anthropology, page 108",
"text": "So informants, like languages, show a stable, agreed upon placement of focals, but considerable variability in the boundaries for the extensions of terms.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"US"
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},
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