center of gravity

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For a few days each April, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival becomes a kind of center of gravity for the music industry and its surrounding ecosystems.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026

Cohesion is often referred to as the strategic center of gravity for NATO—its ability to act as one despite being made up of 32 countries.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026

Kroenke tilted that box and tapped its side, relocating the center of gravity to Inglewood, where the NFL would move its robust media operation and where Steve Ballmer would build Intuit Dome.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2026

With the 65+ share of the population already at 15% and rising, the sheer scale of this cohort is reshaping the economy’s center of gravity.

From Barron's • Nov. 28, 2025

Everyone knew that the center of gravity in American collegiate rowing still lay somewhere between Cambridge, New Haven, Princeton, Ithaca, and Annapolis.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown