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Jack had reached for a vol-au-vent, swallowed it whole in one bite, rinsed it down with a glass of champagne and seized center stage all in one action.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026

Developers acquired and enlarged the island in the 1920s, with the golf course and clubhouse developed at the center.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

The center reported that she was no longer able to keep food down and experienced a significant decline in her packed cell volume, which measures the percentage of red blood cells in the bloodstream.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

The proposed center in Nodaway County, about 40 miles from here, would use municipal wastewater in a closed-loop cooling system that, according to the project website, requires an initial 1.5 million gallons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

I stood blinking in the center of the room.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

The yearly increase in the cost of materials for industrial construction surged to a postpandemic high of 5.3% in July, underscoring the immense push to build more data centers.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

Take the construction of data centers vital to the future of AI, not to mention a constantly improving internet and better cellphone service.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

There are plans to more than quadruple the number of data centers in Texas, according to Cleanview, which tracks such developments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

These data centers are housed in huge new buildings, stuffed with massive heat-generating computers and cooled by big banks of air conditioning.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

The deserted shopping centers with broken storefronts were disturbing enough before we cut into the first neighborhood of little brown and gray and white houses.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

California’s law was passed following a large measles outbreak centered at Disneyland that resulted in 131 cases in California alone, and spread to six other states, as well as Canada and Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

A recent flare-up, in late July, centered on the issue of transgender players.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

To test reasoning without depending on language, the researchers developed logic games centered on numbers and visual patterns.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

The former public health director has stuck to a platform centered on affordability at home and an end to foreign entanglements.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

Most of the complaints centered on Carvie Oldham, mandarin of the Durham Housing Authority.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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

This time, instead of centering around the private sector, a Treasury crisis could hamper the government’s ability to finance itself.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026

Rather than centering himself as a victim, he framed the incident as a test of national character, urging Americans to reject political cruelty and recommit to shared democratic values.

From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2026

“This is centering the chi,” Miss Lizzy say.

From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles