The phrase "anchor focus" is not a standard expression in written English, but it can be understood in context.
You can use it when discussing the main point or central theme of a discussion, project, or piece of writing, particularly in a metaphorical sense related to stability or grounding.
Example: "In our meeting, we need to anchor focus on the key objectives to ensure we stay on track."
Alternatives: "central focus" or "main emphasis".
On news panels, anchors focus primarily on WikiLeaks, each presented as a shocking scoop but given little context.
On election night in November, as CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox News anchors focused on high-tech maps of the U.S. as presidential votes were tallied, Super Deluxe published its own map of the U.S.
By far the most effective bits are newsroom plots, particularly Mary Jane's dialectic with her two colleagues — her flinty producer, Kara, a divorced Latina mom, and Mark, a closeted gay black anchor whose focus on hard news turns off viewers.
Finally, Google Lens is adding real-time functionality, meaning it will actively seek out things to identify when you point the camera at the world around you, then attempt to anchor its focus to a given item and present the information about it.
Patients were analyzed based on three groups: patients who were randomized to the ranibizumab group in the MARINA, ANCHOR, and FOCUS trials (n = 600); patients who were in the control groups and later switched to receiving ranibizumab (n = 190); and ranibizumab-naïve group (n = 63).
She and her husband Tom spent the hours and days after the shooting watching lurid photographs of the shooter constantly on the news, even as Tom Teves pushed news anchors to focus instead on the bravery of the victims, survivors and first responders.
Second, our patient perceived change question (anchor question) focused on global rating and thus ignored changes in specific CMYMOP items.
Anchoring bias: Focusing on one piece of information (the candidate's current job accomplishments but not his entire career his resume had two decades of one to two year roles).
These include the following: Cognitive biases: several types of such biases exist, including anchoring bias (focusing exclusively on a single item of information), availability bias (over-reliance on already known or easily available information) and 'commitment to a steer' (i.e., initial diagnostic impressions), which can impede diagnostic reasoning (Kostopoulou et al, 2012 ; Croskerry 2013 ).
It has been shown that a positive response to PASS, when using the external anchoring question focusing on "satisfactory condition," is associated with a range of moderate disease activity, assessed with several composite indices, such as DAS28, CDAI, and SDAI [ 42].
