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center

[sen-ter] / ˈsɛn tər /






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Located deep within the brain, this small but essential control center helps regulate hunger, body temperature, hormone production, and the daily cycle of sleeping and waking.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

Meanwhile, questions about her credentials took center stage, as she identified herself as a lawyer but in fact had never passed the bar exam.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

Amazon, for example, recently said it would no longer use NDAs with local officials on its data center plans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

She is a mother, a daughter, a community center worker, an artist — and a woman with a complicated romantic and family history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

We’d landed in the grass on the edge of the Academy’s large open green space in the center of campus that everyone called the Mall.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

The big question now centers on Wiles’ replacement.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

“Higher debt costs makes it extremely difficult for neoclouds and hyperscalers to finance further data centers now that their free cash flows have evaporated.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

A plot twist in the series premiere centers on Olivia discovering her former boss trained “Daisy,” an unauthorized AI companion chatbot created by S-Talk, by using her voice and personality without her knowledge or consent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

According to his estimates, AI companies will need $10 trillion in annual sales to generate a “decent rate of return” on their spending on AI data centers.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 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

The findings help explain why a disease centered in the liver can be strongly influenced by events occurring elsewhere in the digestive system.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

But “Tender Loving Care,” centered on two social service workers navigating the fraying social safety net and, in one case, anxiety about aging parents, possesses a bracing humanity full of compassion and urgency.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Porsche’s base case is centered on the lower end of these target ranges, based on relatively conservative assumptions, it adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Greene-Placentia, a former long-haul trucker, told the Times she didn't want the details of her alleged attack to overshadow her campaign platform centered on health care and affordability.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

After several tries, the painting she had been trying to hang on the wall was now perfectly centered between the windows of the sunny bedchamber that was being readied for the new baby.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Shannon and Narducy have built these outings around the R.E.M. catalog, with each tour centering on an album which is performed in full, from start to finish.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 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

This year, “A Very Laufey Day” will include experiences in 75 cities across 25 countries, centering on the theme of “A Celebration of the Arts.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

The ANC had decided to personalize the quest for our release by centering the campaign on a single figure.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela


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