axis

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"There is a two-way communication between our brain and our gut, the gut-brain axis," he says.

From BBC

However exciting or ridiculous GameStop mania seemed to you at the time, it was an event that tilted the investing world on its axis.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Joint Forces -- an umbrella organisation of armed groups fighting alongside the army -- said they had "achieved sweeping field victories in the North Kordofan axis".

From Barron's

"The strike was conducted at a location where, historically, you have the bandits and the Lakurawa parading around that axis," Bwala said.

From Barron's

Nuclear control had been built over decades around a Moscow-Washington axis, but China's growing power and rapid technological advances have shifted the international playing field, which is simultaneously increasingly strained.

From Barron's