epicenter

noun

epi·cen·ter | \ˈe-pi-ˌsen-tər

Definition of epicenter

1 : the part of the earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake — compare hypocenter sense 1

2 : center sense 2a the epicenter of world finance

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by continually reinventing itself, Las Vegas has managed to remain a national epicenter for entertainment

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But more importantly, the conference’s goal is to remind people that the fight against HIV is not over, particularly in the southern U.S., which has become the epicenter of the HIV epidemic. — Naseem S. Miller, OrlandoSentinel.com, "Large AIDS conference coming to Orlando in September," 13 July 2018 His dad, like many of the great electric blues artists of the 20th century, was born in the Mississippi Delta and made his way up north, in his case to Chicago, which became the epicenter of the electric blues. — John Adamian, courant.com, "Britney Spears, Tory Lanez, Kimya Dawson: Seven Concert Highlights," 7 July 2018 The show felt like dispatches from the epicenter of cool. — refinery29.com, "The Birth, Death & Inevitable Comeback Of The Cosmo, SATC's Greatest Icon," 6 June 2018 East Boston has become the city’s epicenter for housing displacement, according to housing advocates. — Jon Kamp, WSJ, "Boston Wants Amazon, but Is There Room?," 21 May 2018 The lack of jobs, investment, and, say residents, respect and attention from the government led Tafila to become an epicenter of a nationwide protest movement when the Arab Spring hit Jordan in 2011. — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, "In rural Jordan, pulling power from the wind to make change on the ground," 3 May 2018 By the 1990s, the houses became an epicenter of midtown's punk rock scene. — Ryan Lillis, sacbee, "These 1910 homes hosted punk rockers and poets. They were just spared from demolition | The Sacramento Bee," 12 Apr. 2018 Parkland became the epicenter of the long-standing gun violence issue after the massacre. — Jaclyn Corin, Seventeen, "I Helped Organize the “March For Our Lives” Because There Is Strength In Numbers," 21 Mar. 2018 But Dara'a, and the story of at least 15 teenage boys arrested because of graffiti spray-painted on a high school wall, became the epicenter of the Syrian war. — Jamie Tarabay, CNN, "For many Syrians, the story of the war began with graffiti in Dara'a," 15 Mar. 2018

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