nexus
Example Sentences
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The executive action instructed the DHS secretary and the White House budget director to use federal funds that have a “reasonable and logical nexus to TSA operations.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
It has been the nexus of my social life for over 20 years, and is simply irreplaceable.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
However, Acting Special Agent in Charge Alex Doran, from the FBI's San Antonio office, said there were indications in the SUV and on the suspect that suggested a "nexus to terrorism".
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026
"It's a remarkable nexus: an ultra-modern technology being applied to a 2.6-million-year-old fossil to tell a story that is common to us all," Alemseged said.
From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2026
And I move more rigid than all the others with a sense of judgment; the vibrations of the chapel bells stirring the depths of my turmoil, moving toward its nexus with a sense of doom.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.