center
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The center, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, repeatedly refined its calculations until it identified the expected impact location.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
A few weeks ago, I opened GoPuff, a grocery delivery app, and noticed a button I hadn’t seen before: a black square with a blue-and-white “go” glowing in the center.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
I do try to live in a place that feels real to me and that what we talk about, working from your center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
When a South Carolina vocational center told Lynn Lee last month that they wanted to hire her, Lee could hardly believe it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
But at the top of the hill we turned left, toward the center of the small town.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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The same problem has surfaced on power grids, when grid-connected data centers suddenly drop power usage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Proposed data centers in Pennsylvania that are now at risk under stringent new data-center rules announced Tuesday by Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Several municipalities under the control of criminal gangs lack voter registration centers, and as of Monday, nearly a month after opening, only about 260,000 people have registered to vote.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
The council can also establish discretionary no-camping zones near libraries, senior centers, freeway overpasses and other “sensitive use” areas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
For the first twelve years of the Alexandriaville seventh graders’ lives, school media centers were the only libraries they had ever known.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
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The attack still lingers in metro Detroit’s close-knit Jewish community, which is centered on Moss’ congressional district.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
The complaint arrives a year after the 2025 animated musical “KPop Demon Hunters” — which centered on Huntrix, a music trio who hunt demons — reached unprecedented heights, becoming Netflix’s most-watched animated original movie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
California’s law was passed following a large measles outbreak centered at Disneyland that resulted in 131 cases in California alone, and spread to six other states, as well as Canada and Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
The movement, centered largely in Silicon Valley, aims to use data and reason to determine how to do the most good possible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
PIH works closely with Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and through their collaborative initiatives, a new generation of doctors and health specialists have chosen careers centered on infectious diseases.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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Hershey Pa.’s Christian Pulisic set up a sequence that led to a Paraguay own goal, and then, not long after, zipped a centering pass to the 24-year-old Balogun to make it 2-0.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 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
This time, instead of centering around the private sector, a Treasury crisis could hamper the government’s ability to finance itself.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026
Rather than centering himself as a victim, he framed the incident as a test of national character, urging Americans to reject political cruelty and recommit to shared democratic values.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2026
But instead, I force myself to take three deep, centering breaths.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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