Some subjects want to please the focus-group leader.    From Wordnik.com.  [PUSHING THE BUY BUTTON] Reference

Even Richard Nixon didn't focus-group his enemies list.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White House Misfires on Limbaugh] Reference

That will focus-group Obama right out of the White House.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Must Call for Palin's Removal from the Ticket] Reference

An audacious idea, so novel it is not even focus-group vetted.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Want Uncle Sam] Reference

In the end, though, all these focus-group favorites are secondary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill McKibben: We're Hot as Hell and We're Not Going to Take It Anymore] Reference

He doesn't overly focus-group things or go with conventional wisdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Apprentice's Sorcerer] Reference

It's as if Fox were now conducting its focus-group research on the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [You Call This A Golden Age?] Reference

Surge is a focus-group word, designed to sell an escalation of the war.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Escalation] Reference

Initial focus-group reaction was positive, phone polling still to come.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rick Horowitz: Kicking Ass -- "Message: I Swear"] Reference

Paramount did a number of focus-group screenings, and that was very clear.    From Wordnik.com.  [May 2006] Reference

In making their case, Mr. Giammetti says he took a page from P&G's famous focus-group approach.    From Wordnik.com.  [P&G's Push Into Perfume] Reference

Today we walked around Harvard Square, which is about as focus-group tested as a public space gets.    From Wordnik.com.  [5/11/02 I don't know if] Reference

Frank Luntz calls in on his web-cam to suggest some toxic language that has just been focus-group tested.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain Camp's Debate Response: Our Town-Hall Proposal Is "Beneath A Worldwide Celebrity"] Reference

The makers of processed foods do focus-group testing to see how consumers like the taste of their products.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kerry Trueman: Let's Ask Marion Nestle: Should Salt Be Regulated?] Reference

Hillary has found her "own voice", poll-inspired, focus-group tested, Ann-Lewis crafted and it goes like this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Spokesman: She Won Because New Hampshire Voters "Liked What They Saw"] Reference

All I know is that people outside the Beltway have grown deeply impatient with our focus-group style of politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Digby: The Dems are missing the boat on Feingold] Reference

Forget what the focus-group participant is telling you -- look at those lovely spikes on her left inferotemporal cortex.    From Wordnik.com.  [PUSHING THE BUY BUTTON] Reference

But once these name-haters were forced to watch an episode as part of the focus-group gag, they said they would watch it.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Cougar Town': A sitcom by any other name...] Reference

Throw in the canned, formulaic, consultant and focus-group driven campaign, and exasperation goes into outright annoyance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report: Hillary Is Not "Unelectable," And The Polling Data Prove It] Reference

Of course the focus-group tested word "redeployed" will be avoided, using instead something like "strategic reassignment".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Scores, Obama Fumbles and Kucinich Blitzes Rush] Reference

Terrific story on Salon today: NYC consumers, not involved with high-tech or finance, meet in a focus-group on the dot-bomb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: July 8, 2001 - July 14, 2001 Archives] Reference

The footage was riveting, but from 1994 -- years before Monicagate -- and focus-group reaction indicated it might produce a backlash.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ready For A Wild Ride] Reference

In a review of Brown's book, Philip Gould, Labour's focus-group expert, wrote that courage has "always been in the DNA of New Labour.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Haunted By ‘Courage’] Reference

Ms. Frank says the idea struck the steering committee after one focus-group participant said, "I may be dying, but I'll say I'm fine.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Learning to Ask for a Hand] Reference

Everything they think or say comes off a teleprompter that flashes poll-tested, focus-group mumbo-jumbo which they reiterate robotically.    From Wordnik.com.  [The butcher's apron] Reference

He was concerned, he says, that Kraft would capitulate to Midwestern focus-group members who didn't like authentic, New York-style bagels.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Brain, Your Brawn] Reference

Every Wednesday night senior Obama aides gather for two hours to review the latest polling and focus-group data to develop that packaging.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health Reform and the Tax Pledge] Reference

Hmm ... maybe a little too much emphasis on focus groups (as you said)? and there are some focus-group regulars -- people who do multiple focus groups.    From Wordnik.com.  [Focus Group: Pennsylvania Voters Are Suspicious Of Obama -- But Support Him Anyway] Reference

Three months ago, courtiers blamed Mandelson and a member of Charles's staff for leaking Buckingham Palace-sponsored focus-group research by the MORI polling group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leading Her Majesty From One Step Behind] Reference

Imagine what higher-ups at the Post must have thought when focus-group participants declared they wouldn't accept a Washington Post subscription even if it were free.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newspapers Should Really Worry] Reference

In focus-group sessions, the company found that the DOT's female character, Darlene, didn't play well with little boys, who cringed at the notion of cracking up a girl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feel Like A Wreck?] Reference

Typically, TV networks use an informal process to decide the scripts that should be turned into pilots, then subject those would-be scripts to extensive focus-group testing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bonnie Hammer’s Hit Factory] Reference