CENTERS Synonyms: 102 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of center

as in hubs

a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest a stretch of coastline that has long been the area's center of tourism

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Relevance

as in middles

an area or point that is an equal distance from all points along an edge or outer surface the center of the earth

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centers

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verb

present tense third-person singular of center

as in consolidates

to bring (something) to a central point or under a single control centered administrative duties under the command of a single person

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as in focuses

to fix (as one's attention) steadily toward a central objective the students centered their attention on final exams

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Recent Examples of centers

Noun

Tobacco parallels The Los Angeles trial centers on allegations made by a 20-year-old woman, Kaley, and her mother that four social media giants intentionally designed addictive platforms that hooked her as a child and led to mental health challenges, including anxiety and depression. —

Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 22 Feb. 2026 Peppered with museums and cultural centers, as well as some ritzy retail, this corridor has turned into a swarming hub for locals and travelers—exactly as Rosewood’s Cheng family intended. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Feb. 2026 The document describes a project that includes eight large-scale detention centers, capable of housing 7,000 to 10,000 detainees each, and 16 smaller regional processing centers. —

Heather Hollingsworth, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2026 The past week has seen Indian tech group Reliance reportedly announcing plans to invest $110 billion into data centers and other infrastructure, and compatriot Adani outlining a $100 billion AI data center buildout over the next decade. —

Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 21 Feb. 2026 Researchers at Harvard created remote entanglement between atomic quantum memories using silicon-vacancy centers in diamond, showing that the fundamental physics is achievable. —

Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 21 Feb. 2026 Local avalanche centers, such as the Sierra Avalanche Center, have professional avalanche forecasters monitoring snow conditions. —

Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 21 Feb. 2026 Tax the billionaires to pay for our monthly healthcare and childcare costs, ban private equity firms from buying our homes, lower energy costs by cutting off wasteful bitcoin and AI data centers. —

Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026 But if the technology takes off and moves beyond experience centers, will users remain within safe boundaries? —

Kendall Hunter, Outside, 14 Feb. 2026

Verb

The Data centers essential to the growth of AI could face delays as well. —

Shawn Tully, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2026 The film centers on a cat that tries to survive a devastating flood alongside a diverse group of animals, including a capybara, a lemur, and a Labrador Retriever. —

Danny Horn, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Feb. 2026 Directed by and starring Paul Gross, the film centers on a group of small-town friends reunited after the strange death of their beloved coach. —

Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 20 Feb. 2026 The Western, a sequel to the 2017 film Sweet Country, centers two adorable Aboriginal children in colonial 1930's Australia, who have escaped from a mining camp where they were forced to work by their white masters. —

Teresa Xie, NPR, 20 Feb. 2026 The Feature section, which centers presentations of twentieth-century art, will encompass sixteen galleries, five of which are joining the show for the first time. —

News Desk, Artforum, 19 Feb. 2026 While the series centers on John and Carolyn’s tragic romance — the pair as well as Carolyn’s sister, Lauren Bessette, died in a plane crash in 1999 — the early episodes also explore John’s relationship with Splash actress Daryl Hannah and the disapproval of his mother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. —

Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 19 Feb. 2026 Goliath, which centers on a small business going on a company retreat. —

Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 19 Feb. 2026 The ad, which centers on a fictional family scouring their community for their missing dog, demonstrates how the Search Party feature activates neighboring Ring home cameras to be used in the search. —

Mason Leib, ABC News, 14 Feb. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for centers

Noun

Other cities that made the list include London; Basel, Switzerland; Dublin, Ireland; and other global arts hubs.

— Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2026
Flea markets are hubs for those who value an item’s history.

— Marisa Suzanne Martin, The Spruce, 21 Feb. 2026