Learn Spanish (Latin America): Curiosamente, ella acababa de sugerir el mismo enfoque. - Curiously, she had just suggested the same approach.

Curiosamente is acting as a speaker attitude marker here. Instead of describing how an action was done, it reveals your opinion or feeling about the entire situation. Placing it at the very beginning, followed by a comma, is the standard way to set the tone for the rest of the sentence.

How does acababa de sugerir translate to "had just suggested"?

The structure acabar de + infinitive means "to have just done something." To say someone had just done something in the past, you use the imperfect tense (acababa). Using this phrase is the natural way to express this idea in Spanish, rather than trying to literally translate "had just" with a word like justo.

Why does mismo come before the noun enfoque instead of after?

The placement of mismo changes its meaning. When placed before the noun, as it is here, it means "the same" (el mismo enfoque = the same approach). If you place it after a noun or pronoun, it means "itself" or "oneself" for emphasis (e.g., el enfoque mismo = the approach itself).

I usually think of enfoque as "focus". Is it the standard word for "approach"?