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 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 Other nuclei have energy gaps that are too large for lasers to excite. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2026

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The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement that its forces carried out drone strikes on logistics centers, port infrastructure and three cargo ships in the port of Reni in the Odesa region.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
Paired with on-site energy storage, SSTs could turn data centers from blunt-force loads into more flexible participants in the grid.

— Alex Pasternack, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of centers

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Our hearts are with the families whose homes and livelihoods have been impacted.

— Ava Berger, NPR, 24 Oct. 2026
There are also four black hearts hidden in the scarecrows, which can be used to blow up a player’s scarecrow avatar and block them from getting this mysterious power-up.

— Alice Burton, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of hearts

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That means building stronger connections between the region’s fashion capitals, but also finding ways for designers to reach more international buyers, press and customers.

— Ashley Ogawa Clarke, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2026
Moscow has also noted the prospect of French or British nuclear guarantees extending to European states and nonnuclear European capitals considering the development of nuclear options of their own.

— Dmitry Adamsky, Foreign Affairs, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of capitals

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Demand for transformers has surged, yet the US has only one domestic producer of the specialized electrical steel needed for transformer cores.

— Dr. Sarah Kapnick, semafor.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Chip designer Arm has estimated that agentic AI data centers could need 120 million CPU cores per gigawatt, four times what traditional data centers require.

— Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of cores

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Reid on Wednesday remembered a player who embraced his rural roots — Bailey grew up in Hog Hammock on Sapelo Island off the Georgia coast — and offered, ahem, a culinary tip.

— Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2026
The goddesses in these paintings have a serene air, with roots firmly anchored in the earth, but also a crown of leaves that sway with the wind.

— Tatiane de Assis, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of roots

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Trump won the area handily in 2020 and 2024 and the arena placed the president hours away from the state’s blue-leaning hubs in Johnson and Wyandotte counties.

— Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026
Should inventory be staged closer to fulfillment centers or major retail distribution hubs?

— Tom Wicky, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026