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center

[sen-ter] / ˈsɛn tər /






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Regulators also have limited ability to shield customers from data center costs on a shared grid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Murray was not identified as a suspect but was placed on leave by the center pending an internal review and stepped down last year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

The Commerce Department, which is led by Secretary Howard Lutnick, is drawing criticism for not putting the Megaspeed, the Singapore-based company at the center of the Nvidia scandal, on a blacklist months ago.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday blamed the Commerce Department for failing to blacklist Megaspeed, the Singapore company at the center of a scandal that prompted Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang to resign.

From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026

He moved the heavy, wobbly old wardrobe away from the wall with surprising ease and pulled my bed into the center of the room.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

The FAA had cited a “communication issue” impacting air-traffic-control centers and “extraordinary circumstances.”

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 14, 2026

The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a temporary ground stoppage on all flights in the United States following a communications issue that affected air traffic control centers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

An emerging solution is allowing data centers to build their own grid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Megaspeed is suspected of helping Chinese firms get around US export controls by buying Nvidia chips for its data centers in Southeast Asia and routing them to China.

From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026

Evac centers are at capacity—people are to go straight to overflow facilities, blah blah blah.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

The outage affected a range of Microsoft 365 services, but it centered on Exchange Online and email services, Microsoft said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

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

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 contestants have lives centered on church and God.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

I centered the ball right between the posts and put it down to score a try, and I did think about Annie as soon as I got to my feet.

From "Winger" by Andrew Smith

Owner Matthew Chernus opened the restaurant on Bayshore Beach in 2023, closing the Alhambra location and centering operations on one end of Long Beach’s Alamitos Peninsula.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Aldaron is part of a new breed of companies centering their entire business models around applying new technologies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 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

The original’s success paved the way for a surge in shows centering Black life in America, including “Living Single,” “Moesha” and “Martin.”

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

And then, rather than centering their agriculture on annual crops, they focused on the Amazon’s wildly diverse assortment of trees.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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