Zeroing

"Zeroing" in a Sentence (2 examples)

Tax officials are zeroing in on income tax evasion.

One vital clue that scientists are considering is that the mosquitoes use exhaled carbon dioxide as a way of zeroing in on their targets. If that’s so, disrupting the carbon dioxide detection machinery of mosquitoes could halt the spread of diseases they transmit.

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