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[huhb] / hʌb /


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It is due to open a women's health hub in the Unity Centre in Ipswich next month.

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

By the 2010s, China had firmly established itself as the world’s largest electronics assembly hub and consumer of semiconductors.

From MarketWatch Jul. 18, 2026

Our sons live close enough that we’re together a lot, and my house tends to be the happy hub.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

In Shenzhen, a tech hub bordering Hong Kong, robotics company Elephant Robotics is busy fulfilling international orders, with roughly 70% of its sales coming from overseas.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

These have their roots in the mid-eighteenth century, when the French government, which had claimed Haiti as its own, made Port-au-Prince, the capital, a major hub of slave trading.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

The renewed Women's Health Strategy would ensure gynaecology waiting lists fall and would expand the number of surgical hubs, "so women continue to get diagnosed and treated sooner", they added.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

These are only joining a growing list of layoffs across California’s tech and business hubs.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 2026

"Schools are basically acting as hubs of social support as well as learning," he tells me.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

Ford, the great-grandson of company founder Henry Ford, said Tuesday that U.S. plans must include an industrial policy that keeps the country competitive with major automotive hubs like China, Japan and South Korea.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

When they were finally and completely stalled, the wheels dug in to the hubs, we left them in the field and started on foot for Udine.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

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

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

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

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

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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