locus classicus

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for locus classicus
Noun
  • This limits the precision of preventive care and highlights the need for a new computational paradigm.
    Somnath Banerjee, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • In this paradigm, individuals’ ability to achieve their goals emerges from the economic rather than political or social realms.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Reporting has uncovered instances where ByteDance used TikTok to track journalists, showed that sensitive user data was accessible in China, and revealed the company’s awareness of potential harm to users.
    Andy Meek, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Before 2021, the number of instances had not surpassed 124.
    Juliana Kim, NPR, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The reversal marks just one example of how Trump is rewriting Republicans’ decades-old playbook on countering Beijing’s influence in the United States and abroad.
    Christian Datoc, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • American craft beer, for example, has grown over the last 30 years to take nearly 15% of US beer sales by volume.
    Nish Acharya, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As listeners enjoy a cross section of very different Americas, Flagg elicits laughs with her humorous observations of the human condition and her wry delivery.
    AudioFile Magazine August 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
  • In one of the shots, Swift sits underneath a street lamp with signs indicating the cross section of 16th Avenue and Cornelia Street — referencing a song on the album with the same name.
    Colson Thayer, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • But unlike those taxidermy specimens, collectors can still enjoy a living, breathing VW Beetle today.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Inspectors noted expired medications still in use and lab specimens left unrefrigerated.
    Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Over a very small sample of 178 innings, Devers has been worth one defensive run saved.
    Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The proposal would also cancel the mission to return the samples to Earth.
    David W. Brown, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Oscilloscope’s roots in New York’s music and film scenes run deep and that quirky green logo has been the opening act for so many of our favorite indie classics of the past decade and a half or so.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Over the decades, the Sundance Film festival morphed from a classics and good-for-you granola film showcase to a vital hub in indie distribution, serving as a gatekeeper and exhibition platform for filmmakers and a farm system for emerging talent heading for Hollywood.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This evolved into a prototype chiefly engineered by Burrell Smith, selecting for its CPU the 8-bit Motorola 6809 as an upgrade from the Apple II's MOS 6502 but still keeping costs low.
    Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Working nights in his garage, Trombone built the prototype using personal funds.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 12 Sep. 2025
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“Locus classicus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/locus%20classicus. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.

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