ground zero

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In Sants market in central Barcelona, just a few kilometres away from the ASF outbreak's ground zero, shoppers seemed reassured by the authorities' response.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

“BDCs are ground zero for value opportunity,” says Stephen O’Neill, portfolio manager at RiverNorth, a specialist in closed-end fund and BDC investments.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

Nobody is exactly sure who originally coined the term, but ground zero, according to the internet historians at KnowYourMeme, might be a post made by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez one day before the inauguration.

From Slate • Feb. 12, 2026

A large group of anti-fascist protesters showed up to the conservative group’s event Monday on Berkeley’s famed Sproul Plaza, ground zero for the historic 1960s campus free speech movement.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2025

It is at the zero hour of the big bang and the ground zero of the black hole that the mathematical equations that describe our world stop making sense.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife