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Jack had reached for a vol-au-vent, swallowed it whole in one bite, rinsed it down with a glass of champagne and seized center stage all in one action.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2026
Like all mass-produced road vehicles, the Maverick depends on a digital interface, by way of two modest screens, including the center touch screen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
“Despite the significant efforts from specialists to administer care, medical treatment and extensive testing, veterinarians did not identify one definitive cause for her poor condition,” the center said on its website.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The folks in nearby Nodaway County have been in an uproar over a proposal to build a data center that would occupy 500 acres.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
I picked up my own hat—the despised gray one from last year—and trailed after them, one hand clinging to the center post.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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As the mood of the nation sours on Silicon Valley’s vision for the future, Flock cameras and data centers have become personae non grata in several communities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
These data centers are housed in huge new buildings, stuffed with massive heat-generating computers and cooled by big banks of air conditioning.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Cost pressures and oversupply risks exist for data centers, said Willy Shih, a management practice professor at Harvard University.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Companies are spending hundreds of billons of dollars on data centers, and that’s driving up the cost of materials needed during construction.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
They ran off with all the water in high school pools to use elsewhere, before they realized they’d be turning some of those schools into evacuation centers.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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The movement, centered largely in Silicon Valley, aims to use data and reason to determine how to do the most good possible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The quake was centered just north of the Oakland Zoo and widely felt across the Bay Area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Although the study centered on autism spectrum disorder, the approach could have wider applications.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
The former public health director has stuck to a platform centered on affordability at home and an end to foreign entanglements.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
With the crowd’s attention centered on the next group of strikebreakers being herded into the packing plant, our presence went largely unnoticed.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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Going into the tournament there was a lot of talk centering on how Aronimink could prove too easy for the world's best.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
She calls herself a “Jewish woman challenging the incumbent” and is centering her campaign on public safety, including law enforcement, fire and probation, emergency preparedness and confronting antisemitism.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
This time, instead of centering around the private sector, a Treasury crisis could hamper the government’s ability to finance itself.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026
But Lawrence’s reputation for thoughtfully centering stories about healers and healing in wells of humor began with “Scrubs,” which aired for eight seasons on NBC before moving to ABC for its ninth.
From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2026
One by one the cut stones of the ribs, called voussoirs, were hoisted onto the centering and mortared into place by the masons.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
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