Examples of ground zero in a Sentence

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Recent Examples on the Web Capper: [The celebrations] were kind of the ground zero of getting weed legalized. — Christian Orozco, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2022 The village — Point Hope — is less than 30 miles from ground zero. — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2022 Researchers noted that Gen-Z women are more transparent about their salaries with peers, so women aren’t starting from ground zero when negotiating pay. — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 6 Apr. 2022 The 9/11 Tribute Museum traces its roots to 2004, when a group founded by victims' relatives decided to turn a former deli, steps away from ground zero, into a focal point for commemoration of the 2001 terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. — Jennifer Peltz, ajc, 22 Mar. 2022 New York City was already in the midst of a homelessness crisis before becoming ground zero for the coronavirus last year. — NBC News, 21 Sep. 2021 Harris County is ground zero for catastrophic flooding and the most consequential impacts of climate change. — Dan Carson, Chron, 21 May 2021 And Carlos, our home state of Florida has been sort of ground zero for some of this action with Governor DeSantis almost using the legislature as his primary vehicle, literally, for 2024. — NBC News, 10 Apr. 2022 San Francisco Mayor London Breed declared a state of emergency in December in the crime-heavy Tenderloin neighborhood, which has been ground zero for drug dealing, overdose deaths and homelessness. — Sara Cline, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Mar. 2022 See More

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