Focus and Principle

Focus

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

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Principle and focus are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Principle" instead a noun "Focus".

Nearby Words: focused, focal, focusing

Principle noun - A basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct.

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Focus and principle are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Focus" instead a noun "Principle".

Nearby Words: principal, principled, principally, principe

good	good focus	good principle
high	high focus	high principle
particular	particular focus	particular principle
original	original focus	original principle
Other adjectives: single, simple, entire, real, extreme, main, new, major, driving, general, political, central, different, higher.

He also left the society in the second season to focus on being a good principle.

Source: Evil Teacher
One company (a family daycare that has a focus on inclusive children) managed to bring one of the Sharks to tears and convinced another Shark (Steve Baxter) to invest on this principle.

Source: Series / Dragon's Den
Men Are Generic, Women Are Special: Often when The Smurfette Principle rears its head, the female character will complain about not being allowed to be wacky, to be wrong, or to have plot focus outside of a Girls' Night Out Episode.

Source: Web Video / The Annotated Series

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