1
as in center
a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest
in addition to being the suburb's social axis, the country club is the place where deals are made and partnerships are forged
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
2
as in confederacy
an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection
an axis of previously nonaligned nations
Synonyms & Similar Words
Example Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of axis
While being essential tools, knives and axes have violent connotations, suggesting a history of violence and seve- rance.
—
Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 16 Mar. 2026
Your Gut Is Like a ‘Second Brain’ The gut-brain axis is a bidirectional network where the brain communicates with the gut and vice-versa.
—Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 16 Mar. 2026
For years its axis had been shifting away from Europe and the West to encompass the growing numbers of Catholics in Africa and Asia… The conventional wisdom had always been that the cardinals would not choose an American pope.
—Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 14 Mar. 2026
The lawyer also argued the case was exaggerated and that testimony by witnesses who cut deals with prosecutors or had axes to grind shouldn’t be trusted.
—Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for axis
Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 16 Mar. 2026
Your Gut Is Like a ‘Second Brain’ The gut-brain axis is a bidirectional network where the brain communicates with the gut and vice-versa.
—Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 16 Mar. 2026
For years its axis had been shifting away from Europe and the West to encompass the growing numbers of Catholics in Africa and Asia… The conventional wisdom had always been that the cardinals would not choose an American pope.
—Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 14 Mar. 2026
The lawyer also argued the case was exaggerated and that testimony by witnesses who cut deals with prosecutors or had axes to grind shouldn’t be trusted.
—Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for axis
Recent Examples of Synonyms for axis
Noun
-
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
-
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
Noun
-
However, a pro-Union group headed toward Arizona to stop this forward movement of the confederacy.—
Paige Moore,
AZCentral.com,
23 Mar. 2026
-
The Wainfleet area falls within the traditional homeland of the Six Nations of the Grand River, a confederacy comprising the Mohawk, Seneca, Oneida, Cayuga, Onondaga, and Tuscarora peoples — the Haudenosaunee.—
Ryan Brennan,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Mar. 2026
Noun
-
Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!—
Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
-
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
Noun
-
The second is that alliances are increasingly being built through energy infrastructure.—
Derek Chollet,
semafor.com,
25 Mar. 2026
-
The more complex history of American environmentalism, which has always been marked by unlikely alliances and political reversals, hardly jibes with the binary that serves as a crucial part of the ACC’s pitch.—
Gaby Del Valle,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
Noun
-
An open-air concert in the middle of a capital city inverts all of that.—
Yook JiHun,
Popular Science,
26 Mar. 2026
-
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
Noun
-
When a coalition of figures assembled at a Georgetown University forum, in February, 2023, the former Crown Prince sat humbly in a row of eight, alongside two actresses, a soccer player, and an Iranian Kurdish separatist.—
Azadeh Moaveni,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026
-
But Netanyahu has the ability to dissolve the governing coalition before then and call early elections.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
22 Mar. 2026
Noun
-
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
-
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
Noun
-
The state employee unions could turn to binding arbitration, and the current fiscal conditions would be advantageous to labor in any arbitration.—
Mark Pazniokas,
Hartford Courant,
26 Mar. 2026
-
Huerta and Chavez co-founded the United Farm Workers union in the ’60s.—
Jenisha Watts,
The Atlantic,
26 Mar. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Axis.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/axis. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
