nerve center

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Recent Examples of nerve center The nerve center On a recent weekday morning inside the 1.7 million-square-foot Boca Raton Innovation Campus, or BRiC, system engineer and remote control operator Andy Alvarez was stationed at an arcade game-like setup that can control the West Palm Beach shuttle. Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 15 May 2025 No ugly speakers or tell-tale wires—and all the controls panels are discreetly stowed away in little ‘nerve center’ closets on each deck. Katia Damborsky, Robb Report, 12 May 2025 This is a party that represents the nerve center of American capitalism, ideological production, and imperial power. Matthew Karp, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025 The Context The CIA headquarters, commonly known as Langley, hosts thousands of employees and serves as the nerve center of the agency's operations. Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nerve center
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Noun
  • Wolf, a seven-foot, 250-pound center, spent his first two college seasons at Yale before transferring to Michigan.
    Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 26 June 2025
  • Others, such as 18-year-old fellow center back Jordyn Bugg and 21-year-old Lilly Reale, will be playing with Girma for the first time.
    Tamerra Griffin, New York Times, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • The study is based on per capital daily news consumption, according to SmartNews.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 29 June 2025
  • To be sure, there have been positive signs that the revival was working, not least because the Tata’s were prepared to deploy serious capital and effort to back its ambitions.
    Vasuki Shastry, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • The Southeast Queens hub opened in 2011 and would expand as part of its $5.5 billion proposal to add table games such as blackjack and poker, over 1,000 new hotel rooms, a 7,000-seat performance venue and more than 10 acres of public greenspace.
    Téa Kvetenadze, New York Daily News, 28 June 2025
  • The California hub achieved a strong index score of 60.7, bolstered by a high rating of 84/100 on FlightRadar24.
    Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • No place on earth draws more fanatics than Penang, the world’s mecca for durian lovers.
    Tom Downey, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025
  • Indianapolis has become a mecca for those activities as the home of the Indy 500 and the Pacers (who came up just short of winning the NBA crown this year).
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Fusion is a process that takes light atomic nuclei and heats them to over 100 million degrees Celsius.
    Kate Dore, CFP®, EA, CNBC, 30 June 2025
  • The scientists found that PDI, on the other hand, has the power to cross into the nucleus of a cell and repair damage, which would essentially extend the life and function of these very important microscopic systems.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • His primary focus is civil space policy, with interests in both defense and energy & environment.
    Oliver Swainston, Space.com, 28 June 2025
  • Ending automatic birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment has been a focus for the Trump administration.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • Despite Benfica’s determination to preserve the core of a potentially special team, Fernandez returned to Portugal with Chelsea hot in pursuit.
    Liam Twomey, New York Times, 28 June 2025
  • At the time, activists were organizing a protest at the property for Sunday, the same day that a core group of private contractors was planning to hold a meeting on site.
    Ana Ceballos, Miami Herald, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • Fox is ground zero for the kinds of vicious lies about immigrants that Trump has been spewing on the presidential stage for a decade.
    Marjorie García, Billboard, 26 June 2025
  • From Garage Grit to Global Scale—Financed by Betting the Family Home At just 18, Namit Malhotra turned his father’s garage in Mumbai into ground zero for what would become a global media empire.
    Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025

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“Nerve center.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nerve%20center. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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