Thesaurus results for NEXUSES

nexuses

noun

variants or nexus

plural of nexus

as in chains

a series of things linked together the oft-repeated claim that any person on the planet can be connected to any other person through a nexus of six relationships

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as in centers

a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest as the nexus for three great religions, Jerusalem has had a troubled as well as illustrious history

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Recent Examples of nexuses Every neighborhood has its own part in the story too, as the nightlife nexus has migrated up and down Manhattan, shimmied across the East River and back, and transformed, faltered, and thrived again over the past six decades. —

Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2026 Her case, within a nexus of other acts of disrespect, provoked the ire of numerous Indigenous Americans, including one of the better-known of the eighteenth century, Pontiac, an Odawa leader who organized resistance against the British. —

Literary Hub, 26 May 2026 Drawing heavily from Japanese kankyō ongaku, the Portland ambient duo explores mind-bending sound design and meditative states in a long-form piece at the nexus of the acoustic and the digital. —

Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 22 May 2026 In the 2000s, the street transformed into a nexus of youth culture, with streetwear shops and restaurants like Animal. —

Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026 Browse the monthly art market Beaches Town Center, the brick-street nexus where Atlantic Beach and neighboring Neptune Beach to the south meet, is always lively. —

Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2026 The Hill is a nonpartisan publication reporting on the inner workings of government and the nexus of politics and business. —

Liz Peek, Washington Post, 4 May 2026 Whilst the Yangtze River Delta has become the nexus of full-stack, frontier generative AI models, Shenzhen is racing ahead as the powerhouse of China’s embodied AI and hardware efforts. —

Brian Wong, Fortune, 3 May 2026 Fewer movies and films are getting made, and Los Angeles, once the nexus of TV and film production, is losing out not only to other states but to Canada, Great Britain, Central Europe and Australia. —

Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026

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Noun

Her presence is heralded not by the sounds of howls, roars or clanking chains, but by the shutting of the door to her study, the scrape of her chair as it is pulled towards her desk, and the clanking of her type-writer keys.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 June 2026
Foot-traffic data show shoppers fleeing apparel, electronics and home-furnishing chains for warehouse clubs, supermarkets and dollar stores, while toys and beauty products remain rare splurges in an increasingly needs-first marketplace.

— Anne D’Innocenzio, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026