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a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest
a city that likes to regard itself as the nation's navel of art and culture
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Recent Examples of navels
This is not a condemnation; there are bad brains and there are good navels.
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Sloane Crosley, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Sloane Crosley, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for navels
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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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While Big Band music has roots tracing back to New Orleans, its major hubs included New York, Chicago and Kansas City.—
Alexa Stone
Updated October 21,
Kansas City Star,
21 Oct. 2025
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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
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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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And in both cases, the women break the men's hearts by rejecting them and leaving them in tears.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 Oct. 2025
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The academy is a crucible for human formation, a place where minds and hearts are forged in the fire of inquiry, reflection, complexity and nuance.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 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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However, the nuclei of some atoms of hydrogen feature one proton and one neutron, too.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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Some nuclei will be stable against decays, others will undergo one or more decays (radioactively) before producing a stable end-product.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
16 Oct. 2025
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Perhaps the lack of a musical artist played a part, or maybe fans expected the game to be available via stream or TV, but there were plenty of open seats in Allen Fieldhouse on Friday.—
Shreyas Laddha,
Kansas City Star,
18 Oct. 2025
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Even the Green Party, which has just four seats in parliament, is now neck-and-neck with Labour.—
Anand Menon,
Time,
18 Oct. 2025
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“Navels.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/navels. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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