nucleus
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The roughly 40% of the Las Vegas Strip that MGM owns is “an entertainment nucleus that simply cannot be replicated anywhere in the world.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
"The investigations are linked to the nucleus of power which has governed for the past eight years."
From BBC • May 30, 2026
In the nucleus, however, it appears to work more like a regulator that helps maintain healthy adipose tissue.
From Science Daily • May 8, 2026
The research team, led by Dominique Langin, discovered that HSL was located in an unexpected place inside adipocytes: the nucleus.
From Science Daily • May 8, 2026
If we were to pull a chunk out of the nucleus—say, one with two protons and two neutrons—it would be not the nucleus of a carbon atom, but the nucleus of a helium atom.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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