Thesaurus results for EPICENTERS

epicenters

noun

plural of epicenter

as in centers

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 epicenters The Kordofan region has become one of the conflict’s main epicenters, with fighting intensifying on several fronts, including through drone warfare. —

Fatma Khaled, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026 Technology, finance, and logistics have been the most visible epicenters, but the ripple effects are beginning to show up in adjacent sectors. —

Jason Kirsch, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026 In Virginia, for example, one of the epicenters of the country’s data center boom, electricity generation costs could spike as much as 57%. —

Tristan Bove, Fortune, 19 May 2026 What was once a timber town is now one of the Willamette’s gastronomic epicenters, home to heavy hitters like Hayward, Big Table Farms, Carlton Winemaker Studios, and Flâneur Wines. —

Zoe Baillargeon, Travel + Leisure, 19 May 2026 The northwest London suburb of Golders Green is one of its epicenters, home to kosher restaurants, Jewish schools and several dozen synagogues, as well as large Asian and Middle Eastern communities. —

ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026 At the time, the portion of the population under 30 in Egypt, one of the epicenters of the uprising, was 60%-65%. —

John Rennie Short, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2026 George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston is one of the epicenters of the TSA headache. —

Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026 As The Athletic’s David Aldridge detailed, Magic City is also one of the cultural epicenters for the Atlanta music scene, which helped the club gain global prominence as that scene took hold of mainstream hip hop over the past few decades. —

Jared Weiss, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026

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Where to donate blood or platelets Here are the permanent American Red Cross blood and platelet donation centers in the Sacramento area, but the organization also hosts blood drives throughout the region.

— Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 13 June 2026
General Atomics already operates the DIII-D National Fusion Facility, one of the leading magnetic-fusion research centers in the United States.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 13 June 2026