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a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest
Wall Street's undisputed status as the nerve center for the world of high finance
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Recent Examples of nerve center
The Context The CIA headquarters, commonly known as Langley, hosts thousands of employees and serves as the nerve center of the agency's operations.
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Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
Also on the list is the NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction, which is considered the nerve center of national weather forecasting, Axios previously reported.
—Kathryn Varn, Axios, 5 Mar. 2025
Yet the nerve center of wine culture, that magnetic force that draws in newer, younger generations of wine drinkers despite a global downturn in wine sales, marches to an entirely different beat.
—Anna Lee C. Iijima, Bon Appétit, 22 Jan. 2025
Here, home to low-income elderly people, in one of Miami’s pockets of el exilio, is the nerve center.
—Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
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Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
Also on the list is the NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction, which is considered the nerve center of national weather forecasting, Axios previously reported.
—Kathryn Varn, Axios, 5 Mar. 2025
Yet the nerve center of wine culture, that magnetic force that draws in newer, younger generations of wine drinkers despite a global downturn in wine sales, marches to an entirely different beat.
—Anna Lee C. Iijima, Bon Appétit, 22 Jan. 2025
Here, home to low-income elderly people, in one of Miami’s pockets of el exilio, is the nerve center.
—Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nerve center
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The shifting narratives reflect the anxiety of Angelenos amid ICE raids targeting immigrants at Home Depots, churches and retail centers.—
Noah Goldberg,
Los Angeles Times,
14 June 2025
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Four detainees have escaped from a federal immigration detention center in New Jersey, which has been the center of protests since its opening in May and where both a sitting congresswoman and Newark’s mayor have been arrested.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
13 June 2025
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Gangs control at least 85% of its capital, Port-au-Prince, and have launched attacks in the country’s central region in recent years.—
Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
5 June 2025
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Haitians continue to flee poverty, hunger and political instability deepens while police and a U.N.-backed mission fight a surge in gang violence, with armed men controlling at least 85% of its capital, Port-au-Prince.—
Chris Megerian,
Chicago Tribune,
5 June 2025
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Shockley, for instance, worked at Bell Labs, a mid-century hub that invented the modern solar cell and the first portable operating system.—
S. C. Cornell,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
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Demonstrations took place in hundreds of U.S. cities, according to Reuters, with large-scale gatherings reported in major hubs such as Philadelphia; Los Angeles; Austin, Texas; Portland, Oregon; and New York.—
Joe Edwards,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 June 2025
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The century-old hotel is famous for its Spanish colonial revival design, and longtime denizens still proudly reference its history as a mecca of Black music after World War II, when the likes of James Brown and Billie Holiday played its famous club.—
Grant Stringer,
Mercury News,
2 June 2025
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Known as a mecca for watersports, everyone pauses to bask in the brilliant purples, pinks, and oranges that splash into the sky as the late afternoon transitions to evening.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
24 May 2025
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These gathered into the nuclei of hydrogen, helium, and lithium atoms.—
Philip Ball,
Wired News,
8 June 2025
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One set, stored in the nucleus, acts like an instruction manual that guides most of the cell’s activities.—
Elay Shech,
The Conversation,
30 May 2025
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Modest improvements to the weakest link usually yield more value than myopic focus on perfecting a single, siloed initiative.—
James Blake,
Forbes.com,
16 June 2025
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The administration's focus on worksite enforcement has mostly left the agriculture sector alone.—
Ximena Bustillo,
NPR,
16 June 2025
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These attract a core target of men ages 30 to 60, but the brand has opened up to a female audience as well with the introduction of its ski capsule in 2022.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
16 June 2025
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The Magic have some outs between now and then with non-guarantees and team options, but this Jalen Suggs-Bane-Wagner-Banchero-Wendell Carter Jr. core is pretty locked in.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
16 June 2025
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Orange County has emerged as ground zero for fraud in the private-pay addiction treatment sphere — separate and distinct from the public programs, mind you — and the new law’s emphasis on housing and outside partnerships makes reformers nervous.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
11 June 2025
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Newark airport has become ground zero for the issue through a confluence of events — events that haven’t actually happened at Newark airport.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
15 May 2025
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