Focus and Tend

Focus

Focus verb - To fix (as one's attention) steadily toward a central objective.

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

Nearby Words: focused, focal, focusing

Tend verb - To show a liking or proneness (for something).

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Focus and tend are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Focus" instead a verb "Tend".

sense	focus sense	tend sense
power	focus power	tend power
people	focus people	tend people
role	focus role	tend role
Other words: point, time, bit, magic, damage, elements, eyes, times, attacks, powers, moments.

Despite this, arcade games still have a strong focus and tend to have the more complete entries.

Source: Network Decay / Influences on Other Media
Rotating Protagonist: The Teams tend to be the focus entirely, but certain arcs do focus more on certain characters.

Source: Manga / 7 Seeds
The first novel and some of the second tend to focus on that pairing, but we haven't received the later novels here in America, which tend to not, and 3.

Source: Fanon / Anime and Manga

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