as in center
a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest
a city that was once ground zero for the insurance industry
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Recent Examples of ground zero
But the 2 World Trade Center announcement represents a big step, physically and symbolically, in fulfilling a pledge of renewal at ground zero.
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CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
But the 2 World Trade Center announcement represents a big step, physically and symbolically, in fulfilling a pledge of renewal at ground zero.
—ABC News, 25 Feb. 2026
The coach has talked about going back to ground zero after such a successful season.
—Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2026
Florida is often called ground zero for climate impacts.
—Yoca Arditi-Rocha, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2026
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CBS News, 26 Feb. 2026
But the 2 World Trade Center announcement represents a big step, physically and symbolically, in fulfilling a pledge of renewal at ground zero.
—ABC News, 25 Feb. 2026
The coach has talked about going back to ground zero after such a successful season.
—Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2026
Florida is often called ground zero for climate impacts.
—Yoca Arditi-Rocha, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ground zero
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Voikietaitis' dominance was a theme all night as the sophomore center from Lithuania grabbed as many rebounds (11) as the Cougars had as a team in the first half.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
20 Mar. 2026
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Already the conflict has seen hundreds killed, with a blast at a drug rehabilitation center in Kabul on March 16, 2026, killing more than 400 people, according to Afghanistan’s Taliban government.—
Rabia Akhtar,
The Conversation,
20 Mar. 2026
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Activists reported hearing strikes around Iran's capital.—
DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE REPORTS,
Arkansas Online,
20 Mar. 2026
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This includes an erstwhile Democrat who spent considerable time and political capital on the issue.—
W. James Antle III,
The Washington Examiner,
20 Mar. 2026
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Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
21 Mar. 2026
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The combination creates one of the world’s largest independent studios with major creative hubs in the five continents and capabilities spanning all genres and formats.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
20 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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Decades of focus on low orbit and deep-space scientific discoveries have colored people’s view of what NASA does.—
Sarah D. Wire,
USA Today,
23 Mar. 2026
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Obi Anyadike is Senior Africa Editor at The New Humanitarian, with a focus on violent extremism.—
Obi Anyadike,
semafor.com,
23 Mar. 2026
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The bank’s base case assumes flows through the Strait of Hormuz to normalize in April over a four-week period.—
Lee Ying Shan,Sam Meredith,
CNBC,
25 Mar. 2026
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Plans are in place to relocate the statue to land belonging to the Department of Veterans and Military Affairs, and during work last year to remove the remaining pedestal base, a crane crew was surprised to discover a tin box in a hole beneath it.—
Christa Swanson,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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Henderson, Washington, Allen, and Gaskins would provide a strong nucleus for the 2026-27 team, along with the other returning players and whoever Lucas can get from the transfer portal.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
23 Mar. 2026
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In 2015, a nuclear physics experiment gave results that seemed to conflict with the very specific predictions for what should happen when an unstable beryllium-8 nucleus is created in an excited state.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
19 Mar. 2026
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In Geekbench, the A18 Pro’s single-core speeds weren't terribly far behind the A16’s multi-core<\/em> speeds.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
20 Mar. 2026
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At the core of the system is the ability to read ErrPs generated in the brain’s anterior cingulate cortex.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Mar. 2026
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“Ground zero.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ground%20zero. Accessed 26 Mar. 2026.
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