epicenter

Example Sentences

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The epicenter was located near Mandalay, the country's second-largest city.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026

The twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are the epicenter of the region’s logistics industry, supporting more than 200,000 jobs and contributing $28 billion to the regional economy in 2022.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

What’s Next: Many private market lenders are exposed to industries at the epicenter of the AI disruption trade, and some of them have been caught out by falling company values and illiquid loan portfolios.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

As Mr. Mulla tells us, in the 1920s India was “in many ways the epicenter of the Muslim world,” still under British rule, home to a large portion of Islam’s population before partition.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

We were in the West Coast epicenter of the military as they shipped men and equipment across the Pacific to Vietnam.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge