How to Use ground zero in a Sentence

ground zero

noun

• Lewis said Arizona is ground zero for the future of the U.S.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 28 Oct. 2022
• The village — Point Hope — is less than 30 miles from ground zero.
  — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2022
• In the years since, New York City has emerged as ground zero for the infections.
  — CBS News, 28 July 2023
• One room looked like ground zero for a million walks of shame.
  — Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
• Can Mnookin and her team bring it down to ground zero where some things work, and others don’t?
  — Kathleen Gallagher, Journal Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2024
• Vigil gives me a recent tour of the farm, which sits just north of the Barela compound — ground zero for the bust.
  — Alicia Inez Guzmán, Rolling Stone, 30 Nov. 2021
• So Georgia is in many ways ground zero for the midterm elections this year.
  — ABC News, 9 Oct. 2022
• If this is the case, then Hoover Dam might be described as ground zero’s ground zero.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• Vice finds the hospital to be ground zero in matters of faith.
  — oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2022
• The board was ground zero for K-12 culture wars that Youngkin made a focus of his campaign.
  — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2022
• The deal fell through, and Access Youth Academy was back at ground zero.
  — Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2022
• Much like the Antarctic, Greenland is ground zero for the impacts of climate change.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 10 Aug. 2022
• The latest from the states In the war over transgender rights, Florida is ground zero.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
• Presenting Iger at Disney’s ground zero was a form of circling the wagons and putting the boss on a pedestal.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
• Judy Blume and is ground zero for Key West's literary scene.
  — Tracey Minkin, Travel + Leisure, 27 Oct. 2023
• The king is most at home at London’s Savile Row, ground zero for bespoke suits.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2022
• Who wants to venture back to ground zero after taking one unlucky break in the middle of a great run?
  — Vulture, 2 Oct. 2023
• If all of you lived together, your home would cease being a safe-haven and would become ground zero.
  — Amy Dickinson, cleveland, 15 Nov. 2022
• The Bengals are building from ground zero and will do so with plenty of talent and very few holes on their roster.
  — Kelsey Conway, The Enquirer, 25 May 2022
• In the third act of Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb sits in a darkened hall and watches a slide show of what his gadget hath wrought at ground zero.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2023
• Kyoto, the ancient capital, turned out to be ground zero for the high-end dessert culture, in both the Eastern and Western style, and that thrilled her.
  — Lisa Futterman, chicagotribune.com, 2 Feb. 2022
• Climate change and the National Park System are ground zero.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 16 June 2022
• Taylor addressed the team as the program kicked off by stating the importance of starting from ground zero.
  — Kelsey Conway, The Enquirer, 3 May 2022
• But Virginia was ground zero in the domestic slave trade, the heart of the Confederacy.
  — Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2022
• In the hours after the polls closed in 2020, her county became ground zero for conspiracy theories that went all the way up to the Trump White House.
  — Jess Bidgood, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2022
• The event is ground zero for the launch of the Walt Disney Co.’s 2023 centennial celebration.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022
• When a factory opens in Mexico, lots of the supplies, lots of the inputs are coming from the U.S. Texas is at the heart of that production, and the border is ground zero.
  — Alfredo Corchado, Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2023
• The city will also be ground zero for casualties stemming from a tsunami that hits the Oregon coast.
  — oregonlive, 21 Oct. 2021
• Ward 6, which is relatively affluent and safe compared to much of the city, is an unlikely ground zero for the fight.
  — Andrew Trunsky, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2024
• The impacts are especially severe in Phoenix, ground zero for extreme heat in the United States.
  — Zahra Hirji, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024