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locus

[loh-kuhs] / ˈloʊ kəs /




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But in-home care was a locus of one alleged Minnesota fraud scheme.

From The Wall Street Journal

Shortly after administration, levels of dopamine and its precursor levodopa increased, along with norepinephrine and its metabolite normetanephrine in the locus coeruleus-noradrenaline network.

From Science Daily

The barber chair, the locus of Sweeney’s revenge on the heartless cruelty of a Victorian London that wrecked his life, isn’t the elaborate contraption of other productions.

From Los Angeles Times

Would Washingtonians rather live next to a structure that looks like a gigantic Martian spaceship or a work of beauty that reflects the genius loci, the spirit of the place?

From The Wall Street Journal

It also happens to be the locus of the dictatorship’s power.

From The Wall Street Journal