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were homing
verb
Present participle of home
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They were homing in on the airplane.
Like fat honeybees, Lyons's pitches were homing in on the exact middle of the strike zone.
The one we were homing in on was tucked under Milk Hill, with its 200-year-old white horse cut into the chalk.
I noticed five helicopters following me, and I realized that they were homing in on a tracking device that somebody had sewn into my clothes.
WASHINGTON — With thousands of tips pouring in from the public, investigators for the Federal Bureau of Investigation were homing in on the Boston Marathon bombing suspects on Thursday morning — or so they thought.
When James Watson and Francis Crick were homing in on DNA's double-helix structure in the 1950s, they zealously guarded their work from prying eyes until they could publish their findings, to be certain that they would get the credit for making the discovery.
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/ We're homing in on a solution.
In kindergarten, you should be homing in on your passion.
Avant-garde collectors, too, like Richard and Pamela Kramlich in San Francisco, are homing in.
Alan Irvine, the Baggies' manager, is homing in on Rolando, who plays for Porto.
As Mr. O'Neill spoke in Chicago, the F.B.I. and C.I.A. was homing in on a Qaeda cell in Nairobi, Kenya.
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