as in center
a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest
Wall Street's undisputed status as the nerve center for the world of high finance
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Recent Examples of nerve center
Here, home to low-income elderly people, in one of Miami’s pockets of el exilio, is the nerve center.
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Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 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
And so, in Hudson Square, an elevated railway station got sheared off, stripped down, and extended into a Google nerve center (by CookFox).
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 12 Dec. 2024
Sealing the spacecraft’s vault—its nerve center—is a plate forged from tantalum metal.
—Nadia Drake, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2024
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Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 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
And so, in Hudson Square, an elevated railway station got sheared off, stripped down, and extended into a Google nerve center (by CookFox).
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 12 Dec. 2024
Sealing the spacecraft’s vault—its nerve center—is a plate forged from tantalum metal.
—Nadia Drake, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nerve center
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Installing new modern hardware and software for all air traffic facilities to create a common platform system throughout towers, TRACONs and centers.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
9 May 2025
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Rite Aid is shuttering or selling off 178 stores and distribution centers across New York, including 35 in the city, per an announcement this week.—
Matthew Sedacca,
Curbed,
8 May 2025
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The home is in the central part of the state about 70 miles west of Lincoln, the state capital.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
13 May 2025
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The fixture list added further intrigue to that race, Atalanta facing Roma on Monday evening while Juve headed to the Italian capital on Saturday evening to take on a Lazio side that was on a six-game unbeaten run.—
Adam Digby,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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Indeed, ad commitments to streaming video hubs rose a noticeable 35.3%, hiking to $11.1 billion from $8.2 billion in 2023’s market.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
11 May 2025
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The surrounding Granary District, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Salt Lake, was once an industrial and manufacturing hub.—
Carley Thornell,
Travel + Leisure,
11 May 2025
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Indianapolis is better known as a Midwest motorsports mecca and basketball bastion than a city built for golf sickos.—
Mike Dojc,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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The Shoppes at Buckland Hills, which spawned the growth of a retail mecca in Manchester and neighboring South Windsor in the 1990s, rose to become the second largest taxpayer in the municipality.—
Kenneth R. Gosselin,
Hartford Courant,
23 Apr. 2025
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The lead atom's nucleus vibrates and ejects three of its protons, in effect turning into a gold atom.—
George Petras,
USA Today,
17 May 2025
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This pulse can trigger a process known as electromagnetic dissociation, in which a photon interacts with a nucleus, inducing internal oscillations that eject neutrons and photons.—
Victoria Corless,
Space.com,
13 May 2025
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Meanwhile, 6-5 forward Falstaff Hawkins might have caused eyes to roll by his singular focus on scoring.—
Ben Bolch,
Los Angeles Times,
11 May 2025
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According to Michele, weight blindness can sometimes reflect healing — a shift in focus from appearance to experience.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 May 2025
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The Ultimate 2025 Horoscope Predictions for Each Zodiac Sign, According to a Celebrity Astrologer Aries (March 20-April 19) The week ahead is bringing a lot of attention to your core relationships, Aries.—
Kyle Thomas,
People.com,
11 May 2025
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At the heart of Vida Caña are four core rums, each sourced from different rum-producing regions and chosen for their distinct profiles.—
Hudson Lindenberger,
Forbes.com,
11 May 2025
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For 30 years, Hal’s Bar and Grill was ground zero for a burgeoning Venice scene on the street that in 1990 was renamed from West Washington to Abbot Kinney Boulevard.—
Brad Johnson,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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The reporters quickly figured out that ground zero for RainbowEx was the work force at Papel Prensa, a paper factory and the country’s largest newsprint supplier.—
David Segal,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Nerve center.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nerve%20center. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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