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as in chain
a series of things linked together
the oft-repeated claim that any person on the planet can be connected to any other person through a nexus of six relationships
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as in hub
a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest
as the nexus for three great religions, Jerusalem has had a troubled as well as illustrious history
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Recent Examples of nexus
Mahan and Villaraigosa are the only two Democrats who have publicly called to roll back regulations on the state’s oil and gas market, illustrating the political murkiness at the nexus of California’s climate and affordability challenges.
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Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2026
Researchers at the nexus of these fields did not wait for central questions to be resolved.
—Darrell Evans, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2026
For the sufferer, however, the illness is lived as a singular nexus between culture, temperament, circumstance, and the body’s quirks.
—Jan Steyn, The Dial, 10 Mar. 2026
Leaving a legacy Taylor believes the nexus of UCF’s magical tournament run began the prior season, when injuries limited Taylor, Dawkins and 7-foot-6 Tacko Fall, as the Knights finished 19-13 and sixth in the American Athletic Conference.
—Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2026
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Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2026
Researchers at the nexus of these fields did not wait for central questions to be resolved.
—Darrell Evans, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2026
For the sufferer, however, the illness is lived as a singular nexus between culture, temperament, circumstance, and the body’s quirks.
—Jan Steyn, The Dial, 10 Mar. 2026
Leaving a legacy Taylor believes the nexus of UCF’s magical tournament run began the prior season, when injuries limited Taylor, Dawkins and 7-foot-6 Tacko Fall, as the Knights finished 19-13 and sixth in the American Athletic Conference.
—Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nexus
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Her dad was the credit manager for a local chain of appliance stores, a second-generation Jewish immigrant, and a lifelong Republican.—
Zayd Ayers Dohrn,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2026
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Teel is the grandson of Raley’s founder Tom Raley, and was hired at the grocery chain in 1976, after college.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
28 Mar. 2026
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Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!—
Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
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The New Yorker reviewed more than a dozen unclassified documents about ICE-tracking apps, many of them created by fusion centers—intelligence hubs created after 9/11 to share information about criminal and terrorist threats.—
Oriana van Praag,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2026
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Editor Danielius Kokanauskis cuts these sequences with Swiss-clock precision, mirroring the cruel precision of Soviet bureaucracy.—
Tim Grierson,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Mar. 2026
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While Sturm sat Lohrei for the next power play after a similar situation in the loss to Toronto, and could have reasonably benched him after that horrendous sequence, Sturm did put him back on the ice.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
26 Mar. 2026
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Texas had subbed 7-foot center Matas Vokietaitis out of the game with 11 seconds left after Boilermakers big man Oscar Cluff had fouled out, giving Purdue a better opportunity in the paint.—
Janie McCauley,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
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The Gators now await NBA decisions from Condon, small forward Thomas Haugh and center Rueben Chinyelu, three juniors who formed one of the nation’s top frontcourts alongside with 7-foot-1 senior reserve Micah Handlogten.—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 Mar. 2026
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Is there a chain of command things are alerted trains are stopped.—
Jermont Terry,
CBS News,
31 Mar. 2026
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In this case, being aboard a train at all owed more to politics than poetry.—
Bill Barrow,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Mar. 2026
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The tech mecca has slowly begun to emerge from one of the country’s deepest declines in downtown retail, in part through a program that peppered the city with subsidized pop-up shops.—
Roger Vincent,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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Each January, that stillness is interrupted by the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting, transforming a quiet alpine town, Davos, into a mecca of power.—
Victoria Bousis,
Rolling Stone,
9 Mar. 2026
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An open-air concert in the middle of a capital city inverts all of that.—
Yook JiHun,
Popular Science,
26 Mar. 2026
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The thousands of blooming cherry trees that adorn the nation's capital have burst into ephemeral blossoms, the arrival of which marks the unofficial beginning of Washington's tourist season.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
26 Mar. 2026
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At their core, these cases are centered on allegations of corporate negligence and how tech products are built, by humans, to function.—
Maggie Harrison Dupré,
Futurism,
26 Mar. 2026
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William Blair downgraded the stock to a hold from buy, citing intense AI competition in its core creative cloud business.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Nexus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nexus. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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