Homed

For the last week or two he's been the official Mars Mascot here at work -- though bless his heart, his several attempts at being "homed" with employees have fallen through. ❋ Unknown (2005)

I have a couple of servers, that are dual-homed, meaning they have two independent connections to the internet. ❋ Tinuzz (2009)

It also can route traffic appropriately when, for example, a person who is "homed" to Yahoo's servers in India visits the site while in the United States. ❋ Unknown (2009)

All users are dual-homed, meaning their data is served from two separate locations, so there is a redundant live copy of their data. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As its sister network TBS focused on comedies, TNT homed in on dramas. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He homed in on that focus and, as things turned out, that was a smart choice, because he ultimately built a successful career, nailing roles in several movies and television series. ❋ Steve Dennis (2011)

Hungry after hibernation, ours have homed in on drips from bathroom bottles of what the dentist and hairdresser call 'products.' ❋ Unknown (2011)

Yet through most of his time in the sun, Macmillan was shrewd and often brilliant, with a mind that swiftly homed in on the crucial point and a tart tongue built for aphorisms. ❋ Peter Preston (2010)

Attorneys hired to recoup money for the collapsed firm's creditors homed in on the firm's ex-partners and their new employers. ❋ Jacqueline Palank (2011)

A Russian guided missile homed in on the signal, killing him. ❋ Daniel Treisman (2011)

European officials have been talking about how they might encourage such deferrals, including through providing "preferred" status to those who agree to defer, protecting them somewhat against the prospect of future losses—but they've also homed in on Greek banks as the most persuadable holders of Greek bonds. ❋ Stephen Fidler (2011)

By January, U.S. officials appear to have homed in on the location, near Gadaado, Somalia, east of the Ethiopian border. ❋ Julian E. Barnes (2012)

More recently, Russell Investments and QuantShares, a group of funds from Boston-based investment advisers FFCM LLC, have homed in on other measures including the volatility of an individual stock in relation to the market, and what constitutes "growth" or "value" stocks. ❋ Ari I. Weinberg (2011)

For now, the organizers say, their sights are homed on the exquisite corpses, which will be auctioned off at the project's end to benefit ART START, a nonprofit that brings art programming to children in homeless shelters. ❋ Kimberly Chou (2012)

Ms. Storey and Ms. Wynne-Edwards homed in on a hormone called prolactin. ❋ Jena Pincott (2011)

Mr. Schar then homed in on an item Mr. Blagojevich leaked to a columnist in The Chicago Sun-Times in which he said he had met with U.S. Rep. ❋ Douglas Belkin (2011)

Some recommend the use of an actual turkey baster, but those sites all looked worryingly amateurish, so I homed in on places that suggested using the needleless syringe method. ❋ Kristen Henderson (2011)