locus classicus

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for locus classicus
Noun
  • That paradigm is beginning to shift.
    John Kerry, semafor.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • This reflects recognition that the emerging paradigm favors capital concentration and large-scale players.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • People experiencing mental illness have seen their delusions amplified and mirrored back to them, reportedly resulting in murder or suicide in some instances.
    Damon Beres, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2025
  • To review or object to instances where our partners assert a legitimate interest in utilizing your data, please visit our vendors page.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • For example, a government notice earlier this year referenced a construction project in Shaanxi province belonging to the CASC 4th Academy, which is widely known as the main contractor for solid-fuel rockets.
    Tamara Qiblawi, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Benjamin Franklin, for example, worked tirelessly over the eight years between 1775 and 1783 to kindle the civil war within the British Empire into a worldwide blaze.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Indeed, the conversation inspired a scene in his 2015 film, Taxi, which featured Panahi as a driver interacting with a cross section of Iranian society.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
  • If so, under what rules of engagement? Leaders in the industry are working to ensure that future thanks to a cross section of professionals.
    Osayi Endolyn, Bon Appetit Magazine, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In total, the researchers analyzed 357 contemporary mosquitoes and 22 historical specimens, and used additional mosquito samples from a separate study, which beefed up the overall count to about 800.
    Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
  • In both the dinosaur mummy specimens, the skin, spikes, and hooves have not been preserved as tissue but as a sub-millimeter clay film that formed on the carcass surface soon after burial.
    Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In total, the researchers analyzed 357 contemporary mosquitoes and 22 historical specimens, and used additional mosquito samples from a separate study, which beefed up the overall count to about 800.
    Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Using data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS), a national database that collects emergency department injury data from a representative sample of about 100 American hospitals, the researchers applied statistical weighting to estimate national injury rates.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • One that could eventually lead readers to engaging with poetry collections and classics with a new perspective.
    Amber McBride, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The Highlander remake’s call sheet keeps getting longer and longer as Siobhán Cullen, Jun Jong-seo, Nassim Lyes, and Kevin McKidd have joined the Amazon MGM’s remake of the 1980s cult classic.
    Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Previous Chinese efforts in deep-sea mining were primarily limited to theoretical studies and lab-scale prototypes.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The prototype — designed, like the Miura, by Gandini — first appeared at the 1971 Geneva Motor Show, an impossible doorstop of a spaceship with a roofline that barely came up to the waists of the go-go-boot-wearing models who posed alongside it.
    Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2025
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“Locus classicus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/locus%20classicus. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.

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