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🧘 To regain calm 🎯 To refocus 🖼️ To move to center
to recenter

to recenter

1 5.1
To change focus back to the main subject or goal
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˈsɛntər/
  • US
translation icon : recentrar
  • I wish to recenter this conversation on the original question: Why would anyone be subjected to such abuse in the first place?

Examples

  • To improve the team’s performance, the coach will recenter the training sessions around teamwork and communication.

  • This museum's greatest challenge is that it must recenter race in our American discourse.

  • Recently, the Educational Testing Service determined to "recenter" the SAT scores, henceforth adding points to the average performance until it sticks at 500.

    Academic text (1996)

  • The College Board's decision to recenter the tests gives schools a new excuse to drop it; as Claire Matthews put it, the maneuver "effectively wiped out any easy way for Connecticut College to follow trends in test scores."

    Academic text (1996)

  • In her presentation, she decided to recenter the discussion on the key environmental issues.

  • The new policy aims to recenter our focus on student learning and development.

Synonyms

to refocus
vsto recenter
23 3.9

Adjust something so it is clear or pay attention to something again

redirects attention specifically back to the main subject or priority
to reemphasize
vsto recenter
  • US
3 4.4

To say again that something is important

brings attention back to the main subject rather than just stressing it
to reconcentrate
vsto recenter
8.1

To focus again after being distracted

moves attention back to the primary subject rather than raising intensity

How Focused

to zero in
63 4.7
to recenter
  • US
1 5.1
to refocus
23 3.9
to drift
331 2.9

Surface Forms

recenter infinitive
recentered past
recentered past participle
recentering present participle
recenters third person singular

Morphology

recenter = center (transparent) = re + center

This is a regular use of re- meaning 'again' or 'back' added to the verb 'center' in its figurative sense 'focus on'.

Etymology

Recenter comes from re- meaning 'again' and center meaning 'middle' or 'main point', so it means to bring attention back to the main subject or goal.