epicenter
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has built his company into the epicenter of an artificial-intelligence universe that now revolves around its advanced chips.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026
Some earthquakes are felt with greatest force far from their epicenter.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2026
There was a rebound in shares of the cloud-computing and software firms at the epicenter of concerns about credit stress caused by AI-infrastructure borrowing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Strong shaking in Panama City, over 200 kilometers from the epicenter, sent panicked people pouring into the streets from the capital's numerous high-rise buildings.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
“You still think you’re the epicenter of a continent, don’t you, Princess?”
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
California has been especially hard hit, since Hollywood and Silicon Valley have been epicenters of cutbacks in information jobs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
College campuses have been epicenters for protest movements and free speech since the Vietnam War era.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Churches were the epicenters of the Black community and to be taken seriously at all times, which is the main reason I enjoy the idea behind "The Book of Clarence" so much.
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2024
Regions near these historic earthquakes' epicenters are still seismically active today, so it's possible that some modern earthquakes could be long-lived aftershocks of past quakes.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2023
Epidemiologists have since discovered that the northwestern shore of Lake Victoria was one of the initial epicenters of aids.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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