center
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Into a casserole dish it went, where the top crisped and the center went soft and savory.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
But there’s also been forward progress for the Chargers, who in 2024 opened “The Bolt,” a gleaming, $250-million training center in El Segundo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Sleep duration is the single most trustworthy number on any device, says Dr. Katherine Malcolm, director of the sleep disorders center at University of California, San Francisco.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Spotting a camera along the route her children walk to school gave her pause; seeing one go up in front of her community recreation center made her act.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
In the center, the pot of potatoes, small mountains in a sea of white milk.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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California is home to the third-most data centers of any state, though it has experienced a relatively smaller new boom because of its high electrical prices and other factors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
But one thing is clear: Anxiety about data centers is mounting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
The centers require intense cooling, which often demands high water and power use and creates the potential to affect the environment and to pass on utility costs to consumers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Individual artificial-intelligence data centers are often worth $20 billion upward each, making them among the most valuable insured assets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Of the centers of early food production, only the eastern United States and New Guinea remained without a fiber crop.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
Some of that wisdom in Van Tassel’s growing community was centered on “Peace, love and harmony” — a chant that allegedly made someone at The Times suspicious.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
My long-term bitcoin bull thesis, which I laid out in the first chapter of my 2022 book with Simon & Schuster, has always centered on scarcity and liquidity.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
The Emmy Award-winning HBO comedy “Hacks” debuted nearly a decade after “Girls,” and it was still centered around a struggling creative grasping for whatever work she could find.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
And now all of her curiosity centered around discovering the next treasure.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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In Memphis, Tenn., 31-year old Justin Pearson is finding support by centering data-center opposition in his Democratic campaign for Congress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 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
She calls herself a “Jewish woman challenging the incumbent” and is centering her campaign on public safety, including law enforcement, fire and probation, emergency preparedness and confronting antisemitism.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 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
Much of the centering was also in place.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
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