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In Christianity, the individual believer was untethered from a wider religious community and became the locus of meaning and authority.

Their central role in artificial intelligence, military equipment and other areas with national-security and economic significance has made them the locus of tensions between the world’s two superpowers.

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.

Los Angeles has become a center of immigration enforcement activity and also a locus of resistance to it — from Mayor Karen Bass to activists in the streets.

But there is the possibility that it becomes the locus of broader disaffection with the government's direction.