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Jack had reached for a vol-au-vent, swallowed it whole in one bite, rinsed it down with a glass of champagne and seized center stage all in one action.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026

In his short tenure as owner, the team said goodbye to LeBron James, gave Austin Reaves a long contract extension, traded for impact center Walker Kessler and signed several complementary players.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

The proposed center in Nodaway County, about 40 miles from here, would use municipal wastewater in a closed-loop cooling system that, according to the project website, requires an initial 1.5 million gallons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

SB Energy, a subsidiary of Japan’s SoftBank, is developing the 10-gigawatt site, which would be the largest data center project announced to date.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

About noontime I put down my knitting and went out to the center room.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Take the construction of data centers vital to the future of AI, not to mention a constantly improving internet and better cellphone service.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

Insatiable demand for computer memory among companies building artificial-intelligence data centers has led to a shortage of the critical component and skyrocketing prices for what is available.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

The yearly increase in the cost of materials for industrial construction surged to a postpandemic high of 5.3% in July, underscoring the immense push to build more data centers.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

Companies are spending hundreds of billons of dollars on data centers, and that’s driving up the cost of materials needed during construction.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

They grated plantains, green bananas, yautías, and yucca, into bowls, seasoned the mixture, spooned mounds of it onto roasted banana leaves, and dropped chunks of savory meat into the centers of the mounds.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

The quake was centered just north of the Oakland Zoo and widely felt across the Bay Area.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Only a few years back, men playing on women’s teams largely centered on noncontact sports such as track and swimming.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Since then, much of his research has centered on reconstructing the animal's biology, behavior, and prehistoric environment.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

The former public health director has stuck to a platform centered on affordability at home and an end to foreign entanglements.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

While Tallmadge was setting up the Culper Ring, Washington was already getting bits from Nathaniel Sackett, a “Person of Intrigue and Secrecy,” who was running his own spy network centered on New York City.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen

Hershey Pa.’s Christian Pulisic set up a sequence that led to a Paraguay own goal, and then, not long after, zipped a centering pass to the 24-year-old Balogun to make it 2-0.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

Going into the tournament there was a lot of talk centering on how Aronimink could prove too easy for the world's best.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

Mind you, Lawrence’s signature formula is still very much in play here, centering the plot around a sensitive, sad hero trying to start over after a great loss.

From Salon ● May 11, 2026

This time, instead of centering around the private sector, a Treasury crisis could hamper the government’s ability to finance itself.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026

But instead, I force myself to take three deep, centering breaths.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy