centrality
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The novel wants to stress the centrality of Igbo faith in the lives of its characters, yet the story itself seems to show the gods’ irrelevance to the machinery of fate. — Sam Sacks, WSJ, "Fiction: The Sweat and Cries of Humankind," 11 Jan. 2019 Nothing like that happened, and the failure of vodka to achieve sufficient centrality there felt a bit like a letdown. — Sergio De La Pava, WSJ, "Can You Taste a City in a Bottle of Vodka?," 14 June 2018 The debate highlights the dollar’s centrality to global markets and the potentially disparate consequences of trade tensions, the U.S. fiscal stimulus and expectations for more interest-rate increases from the Federal Reserve. — Ira Iosebashvili, WSJ, "Weakness Against Major Rivals Dims Dollar’s Shine," 10 Sep. 2018 All of which suggests that his legs (and baserunning smarts) are still in excellent shape going forward, an important consideration given that facet’s centrality to his value. — Jay Jaffe, SI.com, "What Is Lorenzo Cain Really Worth? More Than You May Think," 8 Jan. 2018 But despite the centrality of this idea to the field of AI, there’s little agreement among researchers as to when this feat might actually be achievable. — James Vincent, The Verge, "This is when AI’s top researchers think artificial general intelligence will be achieved," 27 Nov. 2018 The centrality of states in America’s political system never made much sense from the perspective of ideal political theory. — Ezra Klein, Vox, "The rigging of American politics," 16 Oct. 2018 The deeper societal roots of the Sadrist-leftist alliance By contrast, the persistent centrality of elite politics and sectarianism continues to obscure the political significance of similar societal dynamics in Iraq. — Benedict Robin, Washington Post, "Why everyone failed to predict the leftist-Islamist alliance that won Iraq’s 2018 elections," 7 June 2018 The Curia is resilient and has lately reasserted the centrality of Rome against Francis’s collegial vision. — Jason Horowitz, Vogue, "How Pope Francis Is Changing the Catholic Church," 16 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'centrality.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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