ground zero
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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
The bolstered business has helped spur an economic comeback in Roma and Condesa, ground zero for gentrification.
From Los Angeles Times
What to keep and what to toss is a battle, and our basement is ground zero.
Elizabeth Taylor and Burton were ground zero of what we see today.
From Los Angeles Times
A thirty-four-year-old physicist named Andrei Sakharov stood with scientists and Soviet officials on an outdoor platform about forty miles from ground zero.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
