Thesaurus results for HEARTS

hearts

noun

plural of heart

as in centers

a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest the heart of the village economy was the outdoor market

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as in roots

the central part or aspect of something under consideration at the heart of the problem is the school's outmoded computer system avoided any small talk and got right to the heart of the matter

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as in souls

the seat of one's deepest thoughts and emotions deep down in her heart, she knew he was telling the truth

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Recent Examples of hearts To Longwell, such statements suggest that voters don’t want politicians to force them to choose between their hearts and their fears. — Isaac Arnsdorf, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026 Previous research in the field had used blood pressure and heart rate to infer how well hearts were functioning. — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 15 Sep. 2026 Team members additionally have the opportunity to request team grants to help fund organizations that are close to their hearts. — Jessica Bryant, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2026 Our hearts remain with the family and all those impacted by these tragic deaths. — Nicole Acosta, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026 Our hearts continue to be with the families and loved ones of those who were killed, and with the entire Miami-Dade community enduring an unimaginable time. — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026 Some of the rumors were true, most weren’t, but there was no line across which any tale was too tall to make our bodies hurt a little more, to make our hearts move a little more wearily. — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026 One man in particular at Chichester has touched their hearts. — Stuart James, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026 Publishing in the European Heart Journal on September 9, another research team now reports that compared to people sleeping in darkness, people exposed to light at night tend to have structural changes in their hearts. — Veronique Greenwood, Time, 11 Sep. 2026

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Noun

Most are instead forced to live inside aquariums or rehabilitation centers for the rest of their lives.

— John Donegan LONG BEACH POST, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2026
Data centers The facilities that help power the rapid growth of artificial intelligence programs are facing a bipartisan backlash across the country.

— Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of centers

Noun

Legion targets contested airspace The system’s roots stretch back to Lockheed Martin’s earlier IRST work.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026
The oldest company on the list, brewing giant Anheuser-Busch InBev, traces its roots back 660 years to the Den Hoorn brewery in Leuven, Belgium.

— Sam Birchall, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of roots

Noun

Although the story of Odysseus binding himself to the mast to resist the Sirens’ song may belong to the mythical imagination, plenty of desperate souls have gone to heroic lengths to obstruct their wayward desires.

— Meghan O’Gieblyn, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
Preachers and patricians constantly warned that, if allowed to live unchecked in the city, Jews would ‘infect’ the Christian faithful, poisoning the minds of the pious and stealing souls away from salvation.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of souls

Noun

The meetings appeared to produce no substantial breakthrough on ending the fighting, and both countries resumed their deadly air war after a weekend truce in their capitals for the American visitors.

— Samya Kullab, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Russia and Ukraine had agreed to pause attacks on each other’s capitals for the duration of the weekend of diplomacy, which came after months without significant progress toward resolution.

— Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of capitals

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The chip includes a second Neural Engine, bringing the total to 32 Neural Engine cores.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2026
Bridget Wade, a micropaleontologist at University College London, had been studying sediment cores for decades when her team noticed a curious pattern.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of cores

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Yet the deepest human transformations operate on a different layer of architecture—driven by adaptive, systemic processes that our analytical minds can’t fully dictate.

— Patrick Murphy, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
A number of offensive minds — Johnson, Zac (and Press) Taylor, Doyle, Liam Coen, Brady, Drew Petzing and others — are making playbooks and game plans easier to digest.

— Dan Pompei, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of minds

Noun

Under a less dire scenario, Paramount could shift its corporate headquarters to another state to qualify for incentives but still maintain large staffs in the creative hubs of Los Angeles and New York, where the company has its legal headquarters.

— Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
By formalizing direct material corridors between Africa’s raw material producers and Asia’s manufacturing hubs, BRICS is effectively constructing an alternative supply network that bypasses traditional Western intermediaries.

— Mayu Saini, Footwear News, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of hubs

Noun

To experience a thicker, chewier noodle, order the tsukemen (dipping-style ramen) with a broth, as dense as gravy, fusing the essences of pork, chicken and fish.

— Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
Common formats include serums, moisturizers and creams, cleansers, essences and toners, and masks.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Charlotte Observer, 11 Aug. 2026