How to Use locus in a Sentence
locus
noun- The area became a locus of resistance to the government.
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The result is a shift in the locus of error.
—Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
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His master had called it a locus for the dark side of the Force.
—Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2025
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The scarred and pitted thing became the locus of his art.
—Jessica B. Harris, Southern Living, 30 Nov. 2025
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With LLMs, there is no such locus.
—Deb Roy, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2026
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The Bering Sea has been a locus of climate change for decades.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 8 Nov. 2022
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One region that was more active in helpless mice was the locus coeruleus.
—Andrew Reiner, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2018
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This makes the locus of learning the campus and the workplace.
—Bruno V. Manno, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
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So, there’s the concept of locus of control that factors in here.
—Chris "bulldog" Collins, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
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In fact, shadow is the locus where light, space, and the passage of time converge.
—Alessia Glaviano, Vogue, 14 May 2025
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The second floor, where bespoke shirts are made, is the store’s real locus.
—Marisa Meltzer, Vanity Fair, 24 Mar. 2026
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The bench had become the locus of a kind of unhurried urban idyll.
—Anne Quito, Quartzy, 24 Sep. 2019
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People just flocked to it because there had been no locus for the literary life.
—John McMurtrie, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2018
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Chicago has never been a locus of chain restaurants, unlike many cities in the south.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2025
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That could put a damper on Sun Valley, which is a locus of deal-making.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 9 July 2025
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The river runs close to the town’s locus of activity, the store.
—Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
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And, often, these reasons will be outside of your locus of control.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
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There is no way for such a locus to exist only in opposing octants of a cube.
—Quanta Magazine, 29 June 2018
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The locus of concern is in the world’s ocean of corporate debt, worth $74trn.
—The Economist, 12 Mar. 2020
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Two would be a major statement about the shifting locus of power in the women’s game.
—Ava Wallace, New York Times, 27 June 2026
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Guards keep the curious away from an overgrown orchard that appears to be the locus of the search.
—BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2021
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Chicago was the locus of urban blues and the center of the burgeoning gospel scene.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
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Chicago is not the market or the setting but the locus of production.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022
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The locus of that effort was in Indigenous boarding schools around the country.
—Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2022
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In Clinton’s vision, a job was the locus of assistance, the door through which all other help would pass.
—Alex Park / Made By History, TIME, 24 Sep. 2024
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Kid Gloves The YouTube case presents a unique locus for those frustrations.
—Wired, 4 Sep. 2019
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The choice of a church or temple as the locus for the shooting made the act more than just an incident of personal hatred.
—Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, 27 Oct. 2018
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The stakes were clear this weekend as the White House became the locus for a second outbreak of the virus in a month.
—Zeke Miller and Alexandra Jaffe, chicagotribune.com, 26 Oct. 2020
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The answers to these questions provide insight into your locus of control.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025
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Their grids of teenage faces are laid out like tract housing—a locus of conformity—and even at the outset, there was hell to pay for going your own way.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
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