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The Federal Aviation Administration first noticed glitches in communications at its Indianapolis center that oversees high-altitude flights over a swath of middle America.
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
Today, Endeavour, in launch configuration at the Oschin space center, gives hundreds of children a glimpse of what is possible, Oschin said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
Panthalassa says it plans to test its next-generation data center later this year and begin commercial deployment in 2027.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
Now a desk stood in the center of the room with a German army officer seated behind it.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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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
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
Data centers on land have attracted a lot of opposition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has expressed a desire to put data centers in space, and the Bernstein team thinks “there are no fundamental physics or engineering barriers preventing orbital data centers.”
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 14, 2026
She watched the words separate inside the skull—baby lingered and flitted from the memory centers to the imaginative structures to the places where the brain enjoys playing with pleasing-sounding words.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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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
And most of the discussion centered on expected questions such as: How much money can we save?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 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 now 44-year-old governor-elect appealed to Iowan voters using a campaign centered on public education, affordable living, anti-corruption and bipartisanship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026
Their separate stares, captured forever in distorted laughter, met and locked at the point of the hall where the vicious cold centered.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
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That artist spirit of, “Let’s just try and if things fail, then so be it, but let’s at least give it a shot and have that hope” is really important to centering her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 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
But instead, I force myself to take three deep, centering breaths.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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