nerve center
Example Sentences
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An evocatively realized setting such as Ms. Bigelow’s Washington nerve center can be ample reason to make a movie worth seeing, but three others that were overflowing with local atmosphere offered far more than that.
If such attacks rise, Israeli leaders will likely face pressure from hard-liners in their own government to strike Hamas’s nerve center in Gaza, raising the risk of retaliatory rocket fire.
From New York Times
“Stanford is the nerve center of this complex, which now does over 10% of the Pentagon’s research and development,” activists wrote in a flier promoting the action.
From Los Angeles Times
This month, the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, which is not in the habit of selling itself as a nerve center of wokeitude, tweeted out its “strong opposition” to a proposed anti-E.S.G. bill there.
From New York Times
The refrigeration unit is the nerve center for the operation.
From Washington Post
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