How to Use nexus in a Sentence

nexus

noun
  • Not all items had a clear nexus to next year's state spending.
    — John Myers, latimes.com, 9 June 2017
  • We have not been informed of any foreign nexus.
    — CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026
  • All of that, however, works on the cash nexus.
    — Radu Magdin, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Police don’t think the school itself was a nexus in the five tragedies.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 3 June 2017
  • The Middle East is the watch-world’s new nexus.
    — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Mendelsohn has long thrived in the nexus of tech and politics.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 7 Aug. 2020
  • In the nexus of patient activism and science, there is hope for a cure.
    — Sheana Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2022
  • So, at that point, there was obviously not a strong nexus, but of course this can get worse.
    — Fox News, 10 May 2018
  • The nexus of those two quarterbacks and two teams made for halcyon days.
    — Greg Cote july 17, Miami Herald, 17 July 2025
  • One company, Locke Bio, stands at the nexus of these two trends.
    — Bruce Rogers, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Gilbert was a nexus for the beatings, but police failed to connect the attacks.
    — Jimmy Jenkins, Arizona Republic, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Researchers at the nexus of these fields did not wait for central questions to be resolved.
    — Darrell Evans, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The group’s work was the nexus for a story about the couple in Vice News.
    — cleveland, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Smith, in particular, has been a tremendous voice on the nexus of race and sports.
    — Richard Deitsch, SI.com, 17 Dec. 2017
  • Will this release appeal to the nexus of whiskey and Elvis fans that must be out there somewhere?
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The island range was the jumping-off point for kitchen design and is now the nexus for the entire kitchen.
    — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The nexus of the whole story is that Ruby is not allowed to go into the ocean.
    — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 28 June 2023
  • Naples, on Florida‘s Gulf Coast, has been a nexus of big-ticket home sales this year.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Visionaire was a nexus of the who’s who in fashion and art, and its offices were the place to see and be seen.
    — Christine Whitney, The Cut, 11 Oct. 2017
  • North of the city proper, the building is at the nexus of these three communities.
    — David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Wyatt Earp has always been the nexus around which the Tombstone myth was built.
    — Paul Sedan, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2020
  • The Chicago Cubs have been at the nexus of the two biggest baseball trades of the last week.
    — Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Officials are still trying to determine the cause of the fire and the the nexus for the narcotics.
    — Colleen Shalbystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The nexus between us and the ocean could soon be a little stronger thanks to U-Boat Worx.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The nexus of politics, tech, and energy.
    — Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 13 Nov. 2025
  • In the journey ahead, blessed are the quarterbacks who find themselves in the happy nexus of the right time and the right place.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Her exploration of Calpurnia and her past would become the nexus of the new story!
    — New York Times, 6 July 2018
  • Niebuhr, with the bank, points to that economic activity as a sign the shipyard is a nexus in the town.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2022
  • What is clear is that the nature of the case hits at the nexus of Walsh’s political career.
    — Milton J. Valencia, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The home had served as CGF’s legal address and shipping nexus for years.
    — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2018

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