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center

[sen-ter] / ˈsɛn tər /






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To help meet its needs, FlyDubai set up a program last year to train pilots from scratch and operates its own flight training center.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

“It’s the most aggressive tick in North America,” said Thomas Mather, professor of public health entomology and head of a tick research center at the University of Rhode Island.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

A column of smoke rises to the east, over the center of Kyiv, where the sky is beginning to brighten.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

The chipmaker’s graphics processing units, or GPUs, still dominate the artificial intelligence data center market.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

These bones are the center of much contention —we call them Bone Wars.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

Their research centers on a key problem with glioblastoma: the tumor can interfere with the immune system, weakening the very cells that might otherwise help attack the cancer.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

It now encompasses a mashup of disparate tire shops, oil change outfits and repair centers, including franchises and company-owned stores, that maintain their local identity but benefit from being part of a synchronized national network.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

They’ve been hiring more people to build data centers and to supply the materials and manufactured goods used in construction.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026

Vink, the Cornell senior, said she attended a few fraternity parties as a first-year student because so much of the school’s social life centers on them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Put notices around the neighborhood, as well as in grocery stores, community centers, veterinary offices, and pet supply stores.

From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks

Linton’s defense has centered on expert testimony from a neurologist and a psychiatrist who say Linton had a seizure before the crash.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Their objections centered on privacy and civil liberties, as well as fears the technology could be misused, the analysis found.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

The OIG's investigation centered around a major building renovation project at the Fed's Washington headquarters whose cost estimates grew from $1.3 billion in February 2020 to $2.4 billion in December 2024.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Can you tell us what issues you centered in that brief, and just lay out what relief it was that the plaintiffs felt was so urgently needed?

From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2026

While Tallmadge was setting up the Culper Ring, Washington was already getting bits from Nathaniel Sackett, a “Person of Intrigue and Secrecy,” who was running his own spy network centered on New York City.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen

City were accused of a wide range of rule breaches, centering around claims they inflated sponsorship revenue from connected companies and made other "off the books" payments to circumvent financial regulations.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

The original’s success paved the way for a surge in shows centering Black life in America, including “Living Single,” “Moesha” and “Martin.”

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

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

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

In fact, she was treating herself daily to gelato and centering carbs at every meal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

Once the concrete had set, the lagging was removed and the centering was lowered and moved onto the scaffolding of the next bay.

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




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