nerve center
nounDefinition of nerve center
1 : center sense 2c
2 : a source of leadership, organization, control, or energy the financial nerve center of the nation
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Synonyms for nerve center
Synonyms
axis, base, capital, center, central, core, cynosure, epicenter, eye, focus, ground zero, heart, hub, locus, mecca, navel, nucleus, seat
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The new company nerve center will be located at Palmetto Place at Boca Raton, formerly known as Interstate Plaza, 1499 W. Palmetto Park Road. — David Lyons, Sun-Sentinel.com, "Hair Club expanding North American HQ to new Boca office building," 19 June 2018 The department’s nerve center is a windowless room down the hall from Parros’s office. — Dave Caldwell, New York Times, "George Parros Used to be an N.H.L. Enforcer. Now He’s in Charge of Player Safety.," 7 Apr. 2018 In the middle is the pulp, which is the soft tissue that holds the nerve center. — Jill U. Adams, Washington Post, "Here’s what it takes to whiten teeth," 28 Apr. 2018 At a time when Europe clearly represents the sport’s nerve center, holding the event in Asia makes little sense. — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, "Mailbag: Did David Ferrer’s Davis Cup Triumph Doom ITF Proposal for Revamp?," 11 Apr. 2018 As the nerve center for Baghdad’s expansive science set-up since the 1960s, Tuwaitha once teemed with thousands of specialists who kept the facility running day and night. — Peter Schwartzstein, Smithsonian, "How Saddam and ISIS Killed Iraqi Science," 30 May 2018 The group has become a political and cultural nerve center for a new generation of mostly young activists and progressive organizers. — Gregory Krieg, CNN, "Democratic Socialist women score big wins in Pennsylvania," 16 May 2018 The department has credited the nerve centers with helping reduce violence in the city in recent months. — Aamer Madhani, USA TODAY, "Billionaire Ken Griffin donates $10 million to help Chicago police curb murders, shootings," 11 Apr. 2018 Facebook held fast and kept its news feed, which remains the platform's nerve center. — Tracey Lien, latimes.com, "Silicon Valley played by a different set of rules. Facebook’s crisis could put an end to that," 23 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'nerve center.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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