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A few weeks ago, he drove past a data center in Iowa and found the sight unnerving: a “strange, eerie” place, he said, that produced a constant humming sound.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026
As Robert Francis Prevost, he served for almost two decades as a missionary in the South American country, and his emotionally-charged homecoming will conclude in a key center of Catholicism.
From Barron's ● Nov. 15, 2026
A stunning plate made between 1540 and 1555 in Iznik, the ceramics center of the Ottoman Empire, is attributed to Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent’s chief artist, Shah Quli.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
Murray was not identified as a suspect but was placed on leave by the center pending an internal review and stepped down last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
Marcie, who didn’t live with them at the house but ran the program from the cultural center, turned toward the southern boundary of the park.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Opponents view them as the latest overreach by Big Tech, similar to Flock cameras and data centers, and tensions are rising at community meetings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026
These brilliant galactic centers, powered by enormous black holes, were already radiating as much light as a trillion Suns when the Universe was only 670 million years old, about 5% of its present age.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2026
When using the chips in overseas data centers, they sometimes carry physical hard drives with the training data back to China from Southeast Asia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026
This provides an important glimpse of the environment surrounding an early supermassive black hole and could help researchers understand how the first massive galaxies evolved alongside the black holes at their centers.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2026
His eyes were colossal: twin golden orbs with circular black centers.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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The priorities are centered around four pillars including targeted action on the cost of living, restoring Jersey's competitiveness, investing in homes and infrastructure and maintaining financial stability.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
A source told People that Harry and Meghan have established a schedule centered around their children’s school hours, while continuing to prioritize spending time together as a family.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026
The eight-episode season differs from most projects centered on Ali, tracing his coming-of-age, when he was known as Cassius Clay before taking on the name which would define his conversion to Muslim.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026
Their attention centered on specialized cells called spongiotrophoblasts, which occupy a region of the mouse placenta where maternal and fetal cells interact.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
It appeared to be centered in the air above them.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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Owner Matthew Chernus opened the restaurant on Bayshore Beach in 2023, closing the Alhambra location and centering operations on one end of Long Beach’s Alamitos Peninsula.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
City were accused of a wide range of rule breaches, centering around claims they inflated sponsorship revenue from connected companies and made other "off the books" payments to circumvent financial regulations.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
“My job is to always be centering folks in the work.”
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Greenwich, Conn.-based L Catterton sees Hyrox as “uniquely well positioned” in creating a global movement centering on fitness, said managing director Shena Willis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
I hold up my pendant to the sky, centering the dwarf sun in the middle of the obsidian.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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