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nucleus
Synonyms and Antonyms of nucleus
- a college campus that was a nucleus of opposition to the war
happy hunting ground, hive, hotbed, hot spot, playground, playland
attraction, lodestone (also loadstone), magnet, polestar
where it's at
- The nucleus of the movement's methodology has always been passive resistance.
bottom line, bull's-eye, centerpiece, core, crux, essence, gist, heart, kernel, keynote, meat, meat and potatoes, net, nub, nubbin, pith, pivot, point, root, sum
sum and substance, the long and short (or the long and the short)
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