locus
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Once growth hormone enters the system, it activates the locus coeruleus, a brainstem region that controls alertness, attention, and cognitive function.
From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026
One of the factories the companies built in Hemlock in the 1960s has become the locus of Corning’s solar and semiconductor business.
From Barron's • Nov. 7, 2025
In Christianity, the individual believer was untethered from a wider religious community and became the locus of meaning and authority.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
Over the past five years, Fiji – a tiny South Pacific nation with a population of less than a million – has become the locus of one of the world's fastest growing HIV epidemics.
From BBC • Oct. 4, 2025
For us, the island had become the locus of the struggle.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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