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center

[sen-ter] / ˈsɛn tər /






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Defensive rebounds could be a weak point this season for a team still trying to solidify its backup center behind Walker Kessler.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Located deep within the brain, this small but essential control center helps regulate hunger, body temperature, hormone production, and the daily cycle of sleeping and waking.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

The restaurant occupied a sprawling shopping center alongside an Olive Garden, a Cabela’s and a Costco, making it something of a regional mecca for homecoming dinners, birthday parties and Little League victories.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Meanwhile, data center build-outs are also driving up costs for home builders by siphoning off specialized workers like electricians.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The photographer and his assistant begin to pack up their equipment and I stand paralyzed in the center of the room, a statue they must maneuver around.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

For future growth, Ostrover and Lipschultz have placed a huge wager on financing and building AI data centers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

The big question now centers on Wiles’ replacement.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

A plot twist in the series premiere centers on Olivia discovering her former boss trained “Daisy,” an unauthorized AI companion chatbot created by S-Talk, by using her voice and personality without her knowledge or consent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

This week, Quentin Fottrell — The Moneyist — answered questions from a reader whose investment adviser suggested that he participate in a private investment in data centers overseas.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Shopping centers on this road were quite different from those on Route 1.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

Until now, much of the effort to improve organic electrosynthesis has centered on familiar factors, including the electrical voltage, the materials used for electrodes, and the composition of the liquid in which reactions occur.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

But “Tender Loving Care,” centered on two social service workers navigating the fraying social safety net and, in one case, anxiety about aging parents, possesses a bracing humanity full of compassion and urgency.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

The first thing to know about “Oh, Mary!”—if the cacophonous enthusiasm for its off-Broadway run hadn’t reached your ears—is that the play, written by Cole Escola and centered on Mary Todd Lincoln, is howlingly funny.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Greene-Placentia, a former long-haul trucker, told the Times she didn't want the details of her alleged attack to overshadow her campaign platform centered on health care and affordability.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Yuko, by contrast, seemed peaceful and confident; she’d always been centered, so much so that Kathy had been envious, but now Yuko really seemed to have things figured out.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

Her manager told her that people would probably be more interested in her memoir before a series centering on magic and dragons, so she started writing her own story two years ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

“My job is to always be centering folks in the work.”

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

In Memphis, Tenn., 31-year old Justin Pearson is finding support by centering data-center opposition in his Democratic campaign for Congress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

Going into the tournament there was a lot of talk centering on how Aronimink could prove too easy for the world's best.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

One by one the cut stones of the ribs, called voussoirs, were hoisted onto the centering and mortared into place by the masons.

From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay


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