center
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In her own court filing, the staffer described how the center had been blocked off by gates and witnessed how a forklift had "run into and hit the pillars on the building several times."
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
Suki, who had been with her new family only a few weeks, had crawled into an opening in an entertainment center cabinet and could not get out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
He has moved quickly to put his stamp on the center.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
At the center of this debate is the claim that current AI systems might take over the job of training their next versions, a process called “recursive self-improvement.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
The photographer and his assistant begin to pack up their equipment and I stand paralyzed in the center of the room, a statue they must maneuver around.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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Within its first year and a half, Chatfield opened 18 centers throughout the state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Inevitably, they would likely end up powering AI data centers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The Business Insider report said that, based on Project Mercury’s projections, same-day fulfillment centers could make up around 28% of Amazon’s package volume in 2029 and half by 2035.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Their study, published in the journal Nature Communications, centers on the aryl hydrocarbon receptor, or AHR.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
Dancing with gleeful anger, foot to foot, his snowballs so watery only the pebbles are their centers were left in a pile around his feet, he nevertheless insisted on his revenge.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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In one scenario, many countries would trade relatively freely within geopolitical blocs likely centered on the U.S. and China, but commerce between those blocs would be limited.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Much of the previous research on sorbitol metabolism has centered on diseases such as diabetes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
She always aspired to have lots of kids, her own mother testified, and even her career, as a labor and delivery nurse, was centered around bringing children into the world.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
Mann, 42, started making YouTube content in 2018 under the Dhar Mann Studios banner, centered around morality and motivational videos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
This is critical, since most of the self-confidence issues regarding the arts is centered around the idea that children can “get it wrong” or the idea that what they create is less than perfect.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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“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
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
When work resumed, the flying buttresses of the choir were completed and the centering was readied for the first stones of the vault.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
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