locus classicus

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for locus classicus
Noun
  • Relying on Russia’s economic frailty also leans on a different societal paradigm to where the Kremlin is at now.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Proponents believe that quantum computing could usher in a new computing paradigm.
    Nikita Ostrovsky, Time, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Drone overflights again caused disruptions at Danish airports on Wednesday night, officials said, in the latest instance of unexplained drone sightings over sensitive facilities in the Scandinavian nation.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Kimmel then claimed talk show hosts from around the world also offered their support, including one instance in which a talk show host from Germany apparently offered him a job.
    Christopher Tremoglie, The Washington Examiner, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For example, only when patients becomes weak and in danger of losing the ability to live independently are they declared eligible for physical therapy and rehabilitation.
    Bryant Stamford, Louisville Courier Journal, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The clearest example of this is Live Nation, the largest concert promoter on the planet, which is betting biggest on Latin America.
    Alex Ashley, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As listeners enjoy a cross section of very different Americas, Flagg elicits laughs with her humorous observations of the human condition and her wry delivery.
    AudioFile Magazine August 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
  • In one of the shots, Swift sits underneath a street lamp with signs indicating the cross section of 16th Avenue and Cornelia Street — referencing a song on the album with the same name.
    Colson Thayer, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Knowledge of just how the specimens became fossilized in the region has remained limited.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Incensed at being outsmarted, the CEO of Weyland-Yutani (Sandra Yi Sencindive) allows one of her employees, a cyborg with very few scruples named Morrow (Babou Ceesay), to use any means necessary to reacquire the biological specimens.
    Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Years later, a graduate student had collected samples of the cheese from its aging caves – damp, dark rooms cut into the hillside – and brought them back to the lab, where Wolfe noticed the change in appearance.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 Sep. 2025
  • In the longer term, the best way to properly confirm these findings would be to return samples for analysis in terrestrial laboratories.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • However, the audience’s criticism that the new story overly mimicked Bryan Bertino’s 2008 classic was something Harlin and his team took to heart.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Buffalo Trace rye whiskey sweetened with root beer syrup gains depth and a touch of medicinal spice from star anise, making for a playful soda fountain take on the classic.
    Nathanael Gassett, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For now, HydroFlexor and HydroBuckler are only lab-scale prototypes.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Endurance racing like the 24 Hours of Le Mans or the Rolex 24 at Daytona has seen record crowds over the last few years, and a large part of that is down to the sports prototype class, exemplified by cars from the likes of Ferrari and Porsche.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
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“Locus classicus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/locus%20classicus. Accessed 27 Sep. 2025.

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