as in centers
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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Arguably the two top centers in Iowa’s Logan Jones and Florida’s Jake Slaughter went off the board within the final eight picks of the second round.—
Jeff Zrebiec,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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Hyundai will supply its HiMSEN engines Data centers are the backbone of modern digital services, from cloud computing to artificial intelligence applications.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Kyiv has asked Turkey to help facilitate top-level talks and has reached out to other capitals as potential hosts, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said, adding that Ukraine would consider any venue outside Russia and Belarus.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
22 Apr. 2026
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Iran responded quickly, hitting infrastructure across Gulf capitals and throwing the region, and millions of barrels of oil, into chaos.—
Emma Graham,Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
21 Apr. 2026
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Local Latin music hubs like Santa Fe Springs and Pico Rivera have suffered greatly under recent ICE raids and have seen fans retreat in fear.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Apr. 2026
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Major hubs tend to offer more flights and lower fares than smaller regional airports.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
18 Apr. 2026
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With one day left to declare candidacy in the race for Los Angeles mayor, all eyes are on Rick Caruso, the billionaire developer behind outdoor shopping meccas like The Grove.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Feb. 2026
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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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But Ashley and Austin, bless their hearts, would live in the throes of a careless spring, with mismatched furniture and super casual pastel curtains.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
20 Apr. 2026
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Hundreds of competitors went home without any prizes but with hearts full of youthful joy — thanks to a schoolyard game that’s over 2,000 years old.—
Brian Cheung,
NBC news,
20 Apr. 2026
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Running April 23-May 3, the Canary Islands event returns with more than 100 titles spanning competition, retrospectives, live-score screenings and special focuses.—
Emiliano de Pablos,
Variety,
23 Apr. 2026
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That comprehensive toll is one of the central focuses of a key report by Geoffrey Roth, a Standing Rock Sioux descendant, former vice chair of the Permanent Forum, and board chair of the Indigenous Determinants of Health Alliance, an international Indigenous health advocacy nonprofit.—
ANITA HOFSCHNEIDER,
ABC News,
20 Apr. 2026
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Core players giving their squad a high baseline is always vital in the playoffs, and the Ducks finally have some chance at hanging with other teams’ nuclei thanks to Carlsson and Gauthier’s ongoing emergence.—
Andrew Knoll,
Oc Register,
19 Apr. 2026
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First, in most materials, the thorium nuclei release their energy not as light, but through a process called internal conversion, where the energy is transferred to an electron in the material instead.—
Andrei Derevianko,
The Conversation,
14 Apr. 2026
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In order to pull off a stunner, Democrats must hold their own while picking off four GOP seats.—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
24 Apr. 2026
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The Broncos’ brass, of course, all took their seats in the war room for the first round of the NFL Draft on Thursday night.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Navels.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/navels. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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