as in center
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
Milan Men’s Fashion Week remains the epicenter of heritage menswear, the place where classic ready-to-wear meets Neapolitan tailoring.
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Alejandro Badia, Footwear News, 20 Jan. 2026
Spartanburg County, in the north, is the epicenter of the outbreak.
—Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 20 Jan. 2026
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) was at the epicenter of the nation’s civil unrest in the wake of George Floyd’s 2020 death.
—Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2026
Take the Slow Road to Canelli The winery is only a half-hour drive from Alba, a gastronomic mecca that is the epicenter of Piedmontese cuisine and white truffles.
—Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
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Alejandro Badia, Footwear News, 20 Jan. 2026
Spartanburg County, in the north, is the epicenter of the outbreak.
—Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 20 Jan. 2026
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) was at the epicenter of the nation’s civil unrest in the wake of George Floyd’s 2020 death.
—Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2026
Take the Slow Road to Canelli The winery is only a half-hour drive from Alba, a gastronomic mecca that is the epicenter of Piedmontese cuisine and white truffles.
—Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for epicenter
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Imagine a world where all of our cars run on clean solar – ditto for our HVAC systems – and even our AI friends run on solar powered data centers.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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In one of the largest mass abductions targeting religious worship centers in the West African nation in recent months, the attackers on Sunday raided three different churches in Kaduna state's Kajuru council area, seizing 177 people before 11 managed to escape.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
23 Jan. 2026
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The Lane Bryant store is now gone, the shopping center on the far west side of Tinley Park has blossomed and life in the southwest suburb now known as an entertainment mecca goes on.—
Donna Vickroy,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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The Bay Area is a mecca for social dancing, from salsa to line dancing to modern ballroom, said Richard Powers, a choreographer and dance historian who teaches social dance classes at Stanford University.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
24 Jan. 2026
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Retail stores, bars and restaurants have been transformed into mutual aid hubs.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
24 Jan. 2026
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Sitting in the heart of northeast Minneapolis's business district, the coffee shop has become a hub for people opposing ICE.—
Reg Chapman,
CBS News,
23 Jan. 2026
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Once the ad-tech infrastructure is established, ad revenue becomes highly scalable and incurs low incremental costs, unlike the capital-heavy content creation process.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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In both instances, Copenhagen and the Greenlandic government in its capital Nuuk responded by expressing openness to further collaboration, stressing the importance of sovereignty and dispatching a high-level delegation for talks in Washington.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
23 Jan. 2026
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“Epicenter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/epicenter. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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