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a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest
by continually reinventing itself, Las Vegas has managed to remain a national epicenter for entertainment
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Recent Examples of epicenter
The quake, which hit early Thursday local time, had depth of nearly 22 miles and its epicenter was 79 miles west-northwest of Ternate, Indonesia, the USGS said.
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CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
Palo Alto at that time was also the epicenter of the fledgling computer industry and the innovative band was at the very core of the evolution of the computer.
—Mike Hanlon
march 22, New Atlas, 22 Mar. 2026
Set the scene As the Duke City’s 300-year-old founding neighborhood, Old Town is an epicenter for Albuquerque’s heritage and evolution from a Spanish settlement to a city.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2026
Thousands have fled Tehran, the epicenter of the attacks.
—Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
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CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
Palo Alto at that time was also the epicenter of the fledgling computer industry and the innovative band was at the very core of the evolution of the computer.
—Mike Hanlon
march 22, New Atlas, 22 Mar. 2026
Set the scene As the Duke City’s 300-year-old founding neighborhood, Old Town is an epicenter for Albuquerque’s heritage and evolution from a Spanish settlement to a city.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2026
Thousands have fled Tehran, the epicenter of the attacks.
—Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for epicenter
Noun
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The Slovenian center set the team's career scoring record last month.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 Apr. 2026
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Flash forward to the present, however, and the data centers that are popping up everywhere are amid the AI boom are most decidedly not being built in the ocean.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
2 Apr. 2026
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The tech mecca has slowly begun to emerge from one of the country’s deepest declines in downtown retail, in part through a program that peppered the city with subsidized pop-up shops.—
Roger Vincent,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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Each January, that stillness is interrupted by the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting, transforming a quiet alpine town, Davos, into a mecca of power.—
Victoria Bousis,
Rolling Stone,
9 Mar. 2026
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Diridon Station is now a hub for VTA’s buses and light-rail trains, Caltrain and Amtrak — and one day it may be announced as a stop for BART and high-speed rail.—
Sal Pizarro,
Mercury News,
4 Apr. 2026
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Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2026
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After the war started, Rebin said that bombs would not deter him from driving to the capital once more to search for his son.—
Cora Engelbrecht,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
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The city manager in Raleigh, the capital and second-largest city in the state, made $323,978, according to the Raleigh News & Observer’s slightly older salary database, which is from 2024.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Apr. 2026
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“Epicenter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/epicenter. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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