Thesaurus results for NUCLEI

nuclei

noun

variants also nucleuses

plural of nucleus

as in centers

a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest a college campus that was a nucleus of opposition to the war

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as in hearts

the central part or aspect of something under consideration the nucleus of the movement's methodology has always been passive resistance

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Recent Examples of nuclei Separating two magnetic signals Atoms contain several sources of magnetism, including the spins of their electrons and, in some cases, their nuclei. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2026 Many of the heaviest elements arise only in environments where lots of free neutrons crash into atomic nuclei at great velocities. — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026 Is an individual even a network, or is an individual just a genome, tiny little nuclei floating inside this tube? — Quanta Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026 Those elementary particles, first detected experimentally in 1956, travel through space, interacting only rarely with electrons and atomic nuclei. — Daniella McCahey, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026

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Noun

Much of Modi’s comedy centers on differences between various kinds of Jews, a friction that elicits knowing laughters from his (largely, but not wholly) Jewish audience.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2026
In 2012, as part of a nationwide cost-cutting move, the Postal Service closed the mail processing centers in Fort Lauderdale and Pembroke Pines and shifted the work sorting Broward’s mail to the Opa-locka center in Miami-Dade County.

— Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of centers

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Ashley Padilla Padilla, who captured hearts as a star cast member of SNL this past year, made the room laugh with a toast full of jokes and references to her most notable sketches.

— Rebecca Schneid, Time, 30 Oct. 2026
Patients need their daily medications and their hearts, lungs and bellies must be listened to.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of hearts

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Unlike many other capitals, where residential areas are usually found outside of the city’s main sights, here, those neighborhoods are built in and around all the sight-seeing big-hitters.

— Katie Silcox, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2026
Although Flávio retained his lead in the states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Lula won their capitals, Brazil’s two largest cities and reversed the first-round result in the city of Rio.

— Alessandra Freitas, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of capitals

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For that, the Atlas 8 provides Arc B390 graphics with 12 Xe3 GPU cores, paired with 24GB of LPDDR5x RAM.

— Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 27 Oct. 2026
That's a six-core CPU with two performance cores and four efficiency cores, paired with a five-core GPU that also supports ray tracing.

— Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of cores

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As part of its third-quarter earnings report on Tuesday, Netflix lists improvements to monetization as one of its main focuses going forward, alongside efforts to boost entertainment value and leverage new technology.

— Emma Roth, The Verge, 20 Oct. 2026
One of the focuses of the collaboration is a Nutcracker Afternoon Tea debuted by The Palm Court, celebrating the beloved holiday tale.

— Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of foci

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Erika, 16, is a third-generation Japanese-Brazilian who feels like an outsider in the country she was born in and wants nothing to do with her family’s roots.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 28 Oct. 2026
The Cheesecake Factory The Cheesecake Factory's roots were in Beverly Hills, California, where David Overton opened the first restaurant in 1978 to showcase his mother Evelyn's cheesecakes.

— Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of roots

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As a result, pediatric intensive care has become centralized in medical hubs, requiring critically ill children to travel farther for lifesaving care.

— CBS News, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026
As emerging economies and coastal hubs face growing power shortfalls, modular floating plants offer a way to secure grid capacity while keeping the door open to future hydrogen adoption.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026