How to Use centrality in a Sentence

centrality

noun
  • What’s changed is the centrality of the courts in those fights.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Those drones have marked a new phase in the war, defined by the centrality of long-range strikes.
    Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 15 July 2026
  • Perhaps the biggest of all has to do with the centrality of plot.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Plays that lack centrality, however, need voice to take its place.
    Wei-Huan Chen, Houston Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2018
  • But that centrality had long fallen to the wayside.
    Degen Pener, HollywoodReporter, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Yet the centrality of the bill has never quite been clearly stated.
    Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The centrality of the Covid pandemic to every facet of our lives is one of those things.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Yes, accept the centrality of Nvidia’s role in the market.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 4 Jan. 2026
  • The face’s centrality to social life is inscribed in our language, in the metaphors that betray our world view.
    Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • The centrality of women emerged as a vital element in the show.
    Lara N. Dotson-Renta, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2026
  • At issue here is a concept called network centrality.
    Sarah Maokosy, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2025
  • For, as a result of the centrality of these primaries, the races have thrown up all manner of distractions.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The centrality of democracy reform as a means of enacting change is not new.
    Adam Eichen, The New Republic, 2 July 2019
  • If so, their return will attest to the centrality of jazz in Chicago culture.
    Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 28 Dec. 2020
  • With further study, its centrality to the outbreak has become less clear, the annex reveals.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 25 May 2021
  • But, in the mid-sixties, jazz lost its grip on the American mainstream and was swept away by the new centrality of rock.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The centrality of each song is the text — the vocals, the expression, and everything else is in service of that.
    Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Has Silicon Valley lost some of the centrality for tech work?
    WSJ, 21 Oct. 2021
  • 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, 14 June 2018
  • Zeus marked the spot with a stone called the omphalos (navel), to signify the location’s centrality.
    National Geographic, 12 Mar. 2019
  • The towns along the route display the centrality of farming in the Central Valley.
    New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022
  • What stands out, however, is the centrality of his religion—or rather, his faith—which is Judaism.
    Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2026
  • His centrality may not last past this weekend and whatever The Batman is.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The question that has not been engaged enough is the centrality of immigration to the country’s future.
    Jason Deparle, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
  • That new centrality is the message Abu Dhabi Finance Week wants to project.
    Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Like his fee scheme, the auction was another attempt to exploit the agent’s centrality for personal gain.
    Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Last night’s Loeb Awards were one more reminder of the centrality of health in our lives, in business, and in the economy at large.
    Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 28 June 2017
  • The Torah is the centrality of what has held our people together for 5,000 years.
    Alexis Schwartz, Baltimore Sun, 31 May 2025
  • Schaefer, from Zappos, said that the centrality of returns to the business’s sales model means that the price of service has long been baked in.
    Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The centrality of this role answers the question of patient privacy, or what the president’s physician can (or should) tell the press.
    George J. Annas, STAT, 14 Oct. 2020

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