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- verb To
focus excessively (on a particular subject to the exclusion of others)
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Examples
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While he agrees that this consideration is “not crazy”, he suggests we not overfocus on this.
Global Voices in English » Harvard Forum: Are we satisfied with what we’ve got? 2009
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Start-ups have a tendency to overfocus on how great their technology is, how big the market is.
The Best Advice Around, From Those Who Took It Barbara Haislip 2011
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The interventions suggested post-WSIS tend to be very technocentric and may overfocus on infrastructure over questions of content.
Global Voices in English » Harvard Forum – What do we need to know? 2009
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The first step toward developing a personal healthy pattern is to not overfocus on individual foods, or individual vitamins or ingredients, and not to follow the headlines toward one fad diet or a single promising vitamin study.
The Doctor is In MD Travis L. Stork 2010
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The first step toward developing a personal healthy pattern is to not overfocus on individual foods, or individual vitamins or ingredients, and not to follow the headlines toward one fad diet or a single promising vitamin study.
The Doctor is In MD Travis L. Stork 2010
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The first step toward developing a personal healthy pattern is to not overfocus on individual foods, or individual vitamins or ingredients, and not to follow the headlines toward one fad diet or a single promising vitamin study.
The Doctor is In MD Travis L. Stork 2010
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The first step toward developing a personal healthy pattern is to not overfocus on individual foods, or individual vitamins or ingredients, and not to follow the headlines toward one fad diet or a single promising vitamin study.
The Doctor is In MD Travis L. Stork 2010
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Rick says, People can overfocus and ‘create’ the disease.
After the Diagnosis MD Julian Seifter 2010
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Boy, I wish I hadn't seen this post because I suspect I'm going to now overfocus on that darned cocoa as I move through the book!
Tish! That's French! Roger Sutton 2007
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That being said, I think they can be a distraction if you overfocus on results.
ChiRunning Danny Dreyer 2009
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