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Recent Examples of centrality
Network centrality is a common way social scientists measure influence in groups.
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Donald T. Tomaskovic-Devey, The Conversation, 28 Mar. 2025
Her performance restores her character’s centrality, so that not even Mescal at his roaring, shirtless best can threaten her standing.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
The element’s centrality has long puzzled researchers trying to understand early life, because phosphorus isn’t naturally abundant in most watery environments, the kind of place where life probably began.
—Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 24 Feb. 2025
Their increasing centrality to the global economy also grants those with deposits, and the extraction and processing infrastructure necessary to capitalize on these, significant economic influence.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
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Donald T. Tomaskovic-Devey, The Conversation, 28 Mar. 2025
Her performance restores her character’s centrality, so that not even Mescal at his roaring, shirtless best can threaten her standing.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
The element’s centrality has long puzzled researchers trying to understand early life, because phosphorus isn’t naturally abundant in most watery environments, the kind of place where life probably began.
—Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 24 Feb. 2025
Their increasing centrality to the global economy also grants those with deposits, and the extraction and processing infrastructure necessary to capitalize on these, significant economic influence.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for centrality
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With Jim Crow, an imperfect church, economic despair, and the Klan looming, the film underlines again and again the essentiality of love—not as an antidote, but as an alternative, an entirely separate mode of experiencing the world.—
Paul A. Thompson,
Pitchfork,
22 Apr. 2025
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Many people across the healthcare ecosystem acknowledge the power and essentiality of trust to most things in healthcare, including engagement and adherence to health advice.—
Lisa Fitzpatrick,
Forbes,
30 Sep. 2024
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The company has built a reputation for educational initiatives, offering webinars and guides on subjects like real estate due diligence and SDIRA compliance requirements.—
Tyler Shepherd,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
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From playing Lord Henry Blackwood in Sherlock Holmes to Sinestro in Green Lantern, the British actor has a reputation for playing some seriously sinister villains.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
1 May 2025
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President Donald Trump on Friday re-upped his threat to strip Harvard University of its tax-exempt status, escalating a showdown with the first major college that has defied the administration’s efforts to crack down on campus activism.—
Seung Min Kim,
Chicago Tribune,
3 May 2025
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Revoking the tax-exempt status of an institution of higher education is extremely rare.—
Andy Rose,
CNN Money,
2 May 2025
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Tonight’s show is hosted by Walton Goggins, who has been on a tear lately at HBO, appearing on two of the best examples of modern prestige TV: The White Lotus and The Righteous Gemstones.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
11 May 2025
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She’s also navigated big-budget prestige dramas (Darkest Hour), tricky biopics (Mary Queen of Scots), musical crowd-pleasers (Yesterday) and has remained a key figure in Working Title’s ongoing evolution under Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
9 May 2025
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The show explores themes of power, identity and culture in Harlem.—
Christopher Claxton,
Billboard,
5 May 2025
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Bucharest Reuters — Romanians voted on Sunday in the first round of a presidential election that could propel hard-right eurosceptic George Simion to power in a ballot that will test the rise of Donald Trump-style nationalism in the European Union.—
Reuters,
CNN Money,
4 May 2025
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The candidates in Monday’s election have recognized the potency of this moment for Canadians, and the heavy impact of tariffs on the Canadian economy: About 80 percent of Canada’s exports are sent to the United States.—
Matina Stevis-Gridneff,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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Even if this contest underwhelms in the grand scheme of their total rivalry, the two prove that wrestling can provide a narrative draw that competes with any other form of fiction in terms of pure potency.—
Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
21 Apr. 2025
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The name of the new bourbon is Darts, which is a slang term for cigarettes that seems to be more common among Canadians and Australians than Americans.—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
4 May 2025
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So, how did this tradition come about, what are the meanings behind different papal names, what name could the next pope choose and how will it be announced?—
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
4 May 2025
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The multi-year project is expected to generate thousands of highly skilled jobs while cementing Mumbai’s position as a cornerstone of global film production.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
2 May 2025
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This is impossible: there is no getting politics out of art because the desire to remove politics from art is itself a political position.—
S. C. Cornell,
New Yorker,
2 May 2025
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“Centrality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/centrality. Accessed 17 May. 2025.
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