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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defocus.

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  • Often, placing too much emphasis on whats not working in a relationship defocuses you about what is working.

    What Men Say, What Women Hear Dr. Linda Papadopoulos 2008

  • Often, placing too much emphasis on whats not working in a relationship defocuses you about what is working.

    What Men Say, What Women Hear Dr. Linda Papadopoulos 2008

  • Often, placing too much emphasis on whats not working in a relationship defocuses you about what is working.

    What Men Say, What Women Hear Dr. Linda Papadopoulos 2008

  • Often, placing too much emphasis on whats not working in a relationship defocuses you about what is working.

    What Men Say, What Women Hear Dr. Linda Papadopoulos 2008

  • The benefit of the joke is that it defocuses the frame of the question.

    "It said my house is pink. I would not have a pink house, I assure you." Ann Althouse 2007

  • Do you feel it defocuses on the issue of domestic violence against women, by trying to gender neutralize it?

    So why can’t we feminists “play nice” with the boys? 2005

  • June 6th, 2005 at 4:42 pm kim said: Do you feel it defocuses on the issue of domestic violence against women, by trying to gender neutralize it?

    So why can’t we feminists “play nice” with the boys? 2005

  • The theory is that islamist terrorism defocuses the first priority which is quick passage of Obamugabe's leftist playbook legislation because it doesn't offer a creditable domestic enemy for him to demonize and so panic the population into supporting him.

    Blazing Cat Fur 2010

  • Focal length is determined by how strongly a lens converges or diverges light, or in other words how much it focuses or defocuses it.

    Quazen 2010

  • Focal length is determined by how strongly a lens converges or diverges light, or in other words how much it focuses or defocuses it.

    Quazen 2010

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