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nuclei

noun

variants also nucleuses

plural of nucleus

as in centers

a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest a college campus that was a nucleus of opposition to the war

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as in hearts

the central part or aspect of something under consideration the nucleus of the movement's methodology has always been passive resistance

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Recent Examples of nuclei This successor will be built in part from RHIC’s bones, especially from one of its two giant, subterranean storage rings that once held the retiring collider’s supply of circulating, near-light speed nuclei. —

Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2026 The findings suggest that the heavily obscured galactic nuclei of galaxies like IRAS 07251–0248 could act as a production line for organic molecules, thus chemically enhancing their home systems. —

Robert Lea, Space.com, 6 Feb. 2026 The technique could also be extended to collisions involving atomic nuclei and to experiments at the future Electron-Ion Collider. —

Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 5 Feb. 2026 Even though Earth’s atmosphere is sparse, it’s still made of atoms, and atoms have atomic nuclei. —

Big Think, 30 Jan. 2026 The Metabolic Nucleus Nearly all the different cell types in your body — liver cells, heart cells, skin cells, beta cells, and so on — contain the same genome in their nuclei. —

Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 21 Mar. 2025 In its earliest days, the Universe was a hot, dense soup of subatomic particles, including hydrogen and helium nuclei, aka baryons. —

Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Mar. 2025 While pulling matter in, some active galactic nuclei (AGN) release ultraviolet (UV) radiation, which can reach nearby planets similarly to how the sun's radiation reaches Earth. —

Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025

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Many of the types found at garden centers boast big blooms in pinks, whites, and purples.

— Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 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