Thesaurus results for NERVE CENTER

nerve center

noun

Definition of nerve center

as in center

a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest Wall Street's undisputed status as the nerve center for the world of high finance

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Recent Examples of nerve center This is Rio’s Integrated Command and Control Center, or CICC, the state security forces’ technological nerve center. — Constance Malleret, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Aug. 2026 Within the next year, EAV could be back near full strength as one of Atlanta’s most interesting nerve centers for food and drink. — Henri Hollis, AJC.com, 6 Aug. 2026 In effect, the system serves as the tournament's digital nerve center, helping FIFA and Lenovo manage the complex logistics of hosting matches simultaneously across countries and cities. — Justyn Newman, PC Magazine, 8 July 2026 Ultimately the interference can lead to flight disruptions and delays as confusion descends on the nerve center of a plane. — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 28 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for nerve center

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Noun

Sequenced at the center of a three-track medley, its death-dream logic deliberately evokes the SMiLE era’s dark, confusing edge.

— Ryan Meehan, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2026
Amid the deadlock, Hinson is making her own play for the center.

— Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 26 Oct. 2026

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Alaska Airlines, Boise Airport’s main flight provider, will soon launch nonstop service from Idaho’s capital city to Santa Rosa, California.

— Hali Smith, Idaho Statesman, 28 Oct. 2026
The country's upper house of parliament voted last month to require UBS to hold 90% of Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) capital, or about $16 billion in extra shares, as collateral to support its foreign subsidiaries.

— Hugh Leask, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of capital

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As the storm moved eastward into continental Europe, Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport warned travelers of cancellations and delays of flights to and from the busy aviation hub caused by strong winds that were battering the Netherlands.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 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

Definition of hub

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But in the eight years since that location opened its doors, the brand has grown, and the mall has evolved from small art galleries into a vintage mecca.

— Max Berlinger, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026
Food meccas include Pier 57 (hit Nom Wah for legendary dim sum, or LoLo’s on the Water for the fish fry) and, of course, Chelsea Market (try Miznon’s pita cheeseburger and roasted cauliflower, and Ayada’s mango sticky rice).

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of mecca

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Of course, Sandberg is the former COO of Meta who spent more than a decade at the nucleus of Facebook and Instagram, making decisions that influenced how these platforms developed.

— Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 21 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

Definition of nucleus

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Much like the brand, which leans toward natural fibers and emphasizes sustainability, the focus here is on the surrounding sea and forest.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Oct. 2026
The issue of compounding safety became a greater focus for the FDA after a deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis in 2012 was linked to contaminated injections from a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of focus

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Tarrant County is ground zero for a blue wave in Texas, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa said at a Tuesday night get-out-the-vote rally in Lake Worth.

— Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Oct. 2026
Others were dismayed when, in 2008, Hellerstein ended an effort to force New York City government to keep searching for human remains in debris moved from ground zero to a Staten Island landfill.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of ground zero

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Meanwhile, the MacBook Neo's iPhone-grade chip outperformed Googlebooks’ processors in single-core performance, while losing out on multi-core performance by varying (but overall large) margins.

— Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2026
As that enormous dome thinned through the Holocene, its margin withdrew up onto Baffin Island, and what’s left today is the deflated core of something that was once two miles thick.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 24 Oct. 2026

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