center
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But after a trade to Charlotte for center Mark Williams was rescinded, Knecht never settled back into the rotation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
The increase was due in part to increases in investment, reflecting the importance of the ongoing data center buildout to the nation’s economic expansion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
You’ve written about how El-Sayed has sometimes de-emphasized his faith even as his opponents try to center it.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
Interior amenities include a home theater, fitness center, game room, and wine cellar.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
It was the same in the center room of the barracks: half a dozen guards or camp police always present.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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The company buys Nvidia chips, puts them in data centers and rents that computing power by the hour.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
The bonds issued to build data centers that CoreWeave will be leasing actually trade at narrower yield spreads over Treasurys than CoreWeave’s own bonds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Los Angeles Unified, the nation’s second-largest school system, has an extensive magnet system, with 66 whole-school magnets and 268 magnet centers within a larger campus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
And, of course, there’s a brain-melting plan for SpaceX to launch data centers into orbit, harvesting free power from the sun.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
At the least, we can say that China was one of the world’s first centers of plant and animal domestication.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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The findings help explain why a disease centered in the liver can be strongly influenced by events occurring elsewhere in the digestive system.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
There will be no change to the width of the band and the level at which it is centered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
But “Tender Loving Care,” centered on two social service workers navigating the fraying social safety net and, in one case, anxiety about aging parents, possesses a bracing humanity full of compassion and urgency.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
That movie starring Jesse Eisenberg centered on Mark Zuckerberg, a student who struggled socially and eventually created his own online ecosystem for making friends -- what would become Facebook.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
When we got the rope centered, our problems began.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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The story, centering on the rise and fall of a Westish infield prodigy, is rich in love, camaraderie and allusions to Herman Melville.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
City were accused of a wide range of rule breaches, centering around claims they inflated sponsorship revenue from connected companies and made other "off the books" payments to circumvent financial regulations.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
“My job is to always be centering folks in the work.”
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
This year, “A Very Laufey Day” will include experiences in 75 cities across 25 countries, centering on the theme of “A Celebration of the Arts.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
When work resumed, the flying buttresses of the choir were completed and the centering was readied for the first stones of the vault.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
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