as in center
a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest
by continually reinventing itself, Las Vegas has managed to remain a national epicenter for entertainment
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Recent Examples of epicenter
Florida is one of the national epicenters of new HIV infections and has some of the deepest racial disparities of HIV in the country.
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Tristan Schukraft, Sun Sentinel, 12 June 2025
The town of Alba is the epicenter of white truffles, known for its yearly International White Truffle Fair.
—Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025
Metropolitan Port-au-Prince remains the epicenter of the violence with residents of the Grand Ravine neighborhood on Tuesday joining the ranks of those forced to flee after gunfire erupted.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 11 June 2025
Other critics point to Hiroshima Mon Amour as the epicenter of postmodernism.
—Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
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Tristan Schukraft, Sun Sentinel, 12 June 2025
The town of Alba is the epicenter of white truffles, known for its yearly International White Truffle Fair.
—Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025
Metropolitan Port-au-Prince remains the epicenter of the violence with residents of the Grand Ravine neighborhood on Tuesday joining the ranks of those forced to flee after gunfire erupted.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 11 June 2025
Other critics point to Hiroshima Mon Amour as the epicenter of postmodernism.
—Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for epicenter
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Others, such as 18-year-old fellow center back Jordyn Bugg and 21-year-old Lilly Reale, will be playing with Girma for the first time.—
Tamerra Griffin,
New York Times,
26 June 2025
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Wolf, a seven-foot, 250-pound center, spent his first two college seasons at Yale before transferring to Michigan.—
Kels Dayton,
Hartford Courant,
26 June 2025
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And while the epicenter of this movement is in Hardwick, Vermont – a town of 1,000 people that has transformed itself from a hardscrabble rural hamlet into a mecca of food and sustainability – the impacts go well beyond it.—
Riley Robinson,
Christian Science Monitor,
8 June 2025
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The moniker Mall was more about marketing than reality, which confused out-of-state visitors expecting a shopping mecca.—
Aldo Svaldi,
Denver Post,
29 May 2025
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The Southeast Queens hub opened in 2011 and would expand as part of its $5.5 billion proposal to add table games such as blackjack and poker, over 1,000 new hotel rooms, a 7,000-seat performance venue and more than 10 acres of public greenspace.—
Téa Kvetenadze,
New York Daily News,
28 June 2025
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The California hub achieved a strong index score of 60.7, bolstered by a high rating of 84/100 on FlightRadar24.—
Soo Kim,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 June 2025
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General manager Kevin Cheveldayoff had thought about trading down from 28th to acquire more draft capital.—
Murat Ates,
New York Times,
29 June 2025
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The weekend session could be a make-or-break moment for Trump's party, which has invested much of its political capital on his signature domestic policy plan.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
29 June 2025
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“Epicenter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/epicenter. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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