Focus and Nest

Focus

Focus noun - A thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest.

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Nest and focus are semantically related in hotbed topic. In some cases you can use "Nest" instead a noun "Focus".

Nearby Words: focused, focal, focusing

Nest noun - A place or environment that favors the development of something.

Usage example: suspected that the elite private universities were a nest of antigovernment sentiments

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Focus and nest are semantically related in hotbed topic. Sometimes you can use "Focus" instead a noun "Nest".

Nearby Words: nested, nestling, nesting, nestable

full	full focus	full nest
special	special focus	special nest
particular	particular focus	particular nest
certain	certain focus	certain nest
Other adjectives: original, single, obvious, entire, real, large, big, great, huge, little, new, major, stronger.

A particularly good example of this, in part 3 - Hunting and Saving when John Winchester uses 'focus' and does this while trying to win a fight against a nest of vampires...he succeeds.

Source: Combat Parkour
Next day, Goofy loses his own focus due to his empty nest syndrome, resulting in him destroying the toy factory he worked at and getting fired.

Source: Western Animation / A Goofy Movie
Lampshaded in S6's "Best Of The Nest", when Arthur settles on "Just Plain Goose." This is extremely poignant when one considers that most of the later seasons episodes focus less on Arthur.

Source: Western Animation / Arthur

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