as in centers
a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest
Broadway is the hub of theater life in New York
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Recent Examples of hubs
While Big Band music has roots tracing back to New Orleans, its major hubs included New York, Chicago and Kansas City.
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Alexa Stone
updated October 21, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2025
Terranea Cove Beach Rancho Palos Verdes is a coastal enclave in southern Los Angeles County that provides a slower pace than the city’s more populous hubs.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2025
DirecTV, Roku, Spectrum, Xfinity and the like have built an assortment of sports-specific hubs, smart searches and personalized recommendation algorithms to get fans to their games.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 20 Oct. 2025
Taghi was arrested in Dubai in 2019 and deported to the Netherlands, whose ports have become drug-trafficking hubs.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Forbes found that the leading billionaire hubs are New York City (home to 123 billionaires), Moscow, Hong Kong, London, and Beijing.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
How to Get There The easiest way to reach Syracuse is by air via Syracuse Hancock International Airport (SYR)—just six miles north of downtown—which has nonstop flights to major hubs like New York City, Boston, Chicago, and Atlanta.
—Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2025
Officially launched in July 2025 and featured at the World Robot Conference (WRC) in Beijing, Oli is ideal for environments that require nuanced manipulation and adaptability, such as logistics hubs, assembly lines, and fulfillment centers.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
Ukraine sees them as a way to strike Russian command centers, logistics hubs, and airfields currently out of reach.
—Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Alexa Stone
updated October 21, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2025
Terranea Cove Beach Rancho Palos Verdes is a coastal enclave in southern Los Angeles County that provides a slower pace than the city’s more populous hubs.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2025
DirecTV, Roku, Spectrum, Xfinity and the like have built an assortment of sports-specific hubs, smart searches and personalized recommendation algorithms to get fans to their games.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 20 Oct. 2025
Taghi was arrested in Dubai in 2019 and deported to the Netherlands, whose ports have become drug-trafficking hubs.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Forbes found that the leading billionaire hubs are New York City (home to 123 billionaires), Moscow, Hong Kong, London, and Beijing.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2025
How to Get There The easiest way to reach Syracuse is by air via Syracuse Hancock International Airport (SYR)—just six miles north of downtown—which has nonstop flights to major hubs like New York City, Boston, Chicago, and Atlanta.
—Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2025
Officially launched in July 2025 and featured at the World Robot Conference (WRC) in Beijing, Oli is ideal for environments that require nuanced manipulation and adaptability, such as logistics hubs, assembly lines, and fulfillment centers.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
Ukraine sees them as a way to strike Russian command centers, logistics hubs, and airfields currently out of reach.
—Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hubs
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His first business ventures were reportedly an internet café and gaming centers in the provincial capital Fuzhou.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2025
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Southeastern Wisconsin has become the latest hot spot for some of the largest tech companies – Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle – to spend billions on build data centers to further artificial intelligence programming.—
Ricardo Torres,
jsonline.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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By September, the Soviets had lost not only all the territorial gains of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Germany, including the Baltic states, Moldavia, and western parts of Ukraine and Belarus, but also the capitals of those two republics, first Minsk and then Kyiv.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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It is meant to be spent with existing other capitals.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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After all, the Moroccan city is one of the world's great shopping meccas.—
Elizabeth Cantrell,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Oct. 2025
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Test yourself on melon meccas and revolutionary roots in this week's American Culture Quiz.—
Staff,
FOXNews.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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One of the Royal Film Commission’s main focuses is to host productions that can elevate the country’s profile internationally, particularly those that shoot Jordan for Jordan.—
Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
20 Sep. 2025
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Watt and defensive lineman Cameron Heyward will be the focuses of the Patriots’ protection plan with edge-rusher Alex Highsmith (one sack, 3 QB hits last week) ruled out.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
20 Sep. 2025
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“Hubs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hubs. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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