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[huhb] / hʌb /


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As a regional transport hub, the risk of the outbreak spreading is a big concern.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Aside from condensing the company’s various offerings on YouTube and elsewhere into one giant hub, it also makes everything easier to watch on TV.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

The city of Chicago is also seen as the global hub for derivatives trading.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

But the kingdom has repaired its relationships with the financial world, and Prince Mohammed is pursuing a Vision 2030 agenda to turn the petrostate into an international hub of trade, technology and culture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

It didn’t seem fitting for Brinker Hadley, the hub of the class, to be congratulating me on influence.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

The affected area extends from the forests surrounding Manaus and Santarém, two major commercial and transportation hubs in Brazil, eastward toward the mouth of the Amazon River.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Firms’ early websites were perfunctory hubs of partner and contact information, and seldom updated to move with the oscillating trends of the internet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

She and her husband also pay homage to these unsung cultural hubs in the latest edition of their fledgling zine, which they’ve dubbed “a gallery you can hold.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

He has reached out to Gen Z with various programmes that offer grants and loans to small business and youth-led enterprises, technology hubs and digital work opportunities.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

It was in the fireplace, buried up to its hubs in wood ashes.

From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White

That competitive pressure motivated the hubbed carriers to use outsourcing and the market power they acquired from consolidation to continue pushing regional wages down, even while they earned huge profits.

From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2017

In some ways the hubbed airlines have become more like Southwest.

From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2017

But in the mid-’90s government regulators began to regard Southwest as a positive competitive influence on the hubbed airlines—whenever Southwest managed to enter a new market, fares fell.

From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2017

Consolidation has also made it less essential for the hubbed airlines to worry about smaller markets.

From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2017

As more low-cost airlines began competing on the lucrative routes between major cities, it was harder for the hubbed operators to charge the premium they required to recoup their higher operating costs.

From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2017

Revenue fell 1.7% to 455 million francs, which Sunrise said resulted from lower mobile hardware and hubbing sales.

From Reuters ● Aug. 22, 2019


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