Focus
How words are described
| emotional | emotional focus | emotional stress |
| high | high focus | high stress |
| considerable | considerable focus | considerable stress |
| heavy | heavy focus | heavy stress |
| Other adjectives: constant, big, increased, extreme, great, intense, serious, little, excessive, new, major, mental, general, less, extra, additional, significant, greater, added, sudden. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Jan Ors as a HWK-290 pilot can generate bonus dice for others in exchange for gaining stress, while her long-time partner Kyle Katarn's crew card means that you'll get focus tokens when that stress goes away.
Source: Bash Brothers -
Soma has her put her hands together, then slaps them with his own hands, helping to ease her stress so she could focus on cooking.
Source: Manga / Shokugeki no Soma -
If you're told that you don't actually need to sleep, often you then fall asleep easily, as the stress and therefore the need to focus on the process is resolved.
Source: Centipede's Dilemma
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