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center

[sen-ter] / ˈsɛn tər /






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Nadine Levyfield has advocated for more transparency and answers from Metro over a bus lane project through the center of Eagle Rock.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

And a common way to discharge many patients, putting them in a rehab center or postacute-care facility, is increasingly delayed, leaving fewer beds for incoming patients.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Texas is so important because a quarter of all AI infrastructure and data center capacity planned is slated for this state alone.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

Neil Biondich, center, backstage prior to the show with the cast getting ready for “The Dark Wedding.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

We skidded to a stop dead center, and as though we’d planned it, we reached out at the same time to grab hands.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

In an interview, Gina Hinojosa emphasized that she wasn’t ideologically opposed to data centers, but that community approval must come first.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

"That really increases the chance of cold air outbreaks across the latitudes where most of the densely populated population centers are across the northern hemisphere, US, Europe and East Asia," Cohen told AFP.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

Polls showed that three-quarters of Texans opposed the unregulated spread of data centers.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

Some investors aren’t so sure Americans will learn to love data centers as neighbors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Shopping centers on this road were quite different from those on Route 1.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

The committee has judged for months that the labor market is roughly in balance while inflation is above its 2% target, so the debate has centered on prices, not hiring.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

The results challenge the long-standing assumption that the evolutionary roots of all living apes were centered in or around East Africa.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

Side 2 launches with “Sunspot Baby,” a honky-tonk blues centered on a duplicitous girlfriend who bails on the protagonist, leaving him with a maxed-out credit card.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Much of the debate over AI’s payoff has centered on what companies spend on it.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

Helpfully, the middle C key had a full corner missing, a wedge about the size of my fingernail, which got me centered every time.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

In fact, she was treating herself daily to gelato and centering carbs at every meal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

One by one the cut stones of the ribs, called voussoirs, were hoisted onto the centering and mortared into place by the masons.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay


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