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center of gravity

noun as in point of balance

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Gold buyers, Signorelli says, are demanding “proof the dollar still has a center of gravity.”

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The different ways you can move in a wheelchair — with the ability to roll, spin and keep a lower center of gravity — create opportunities for innovative choreography that would otherwise be impossible.

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Despite their early contributions, notably the achievement of the first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction in December 1942, the project’s center of gravity had shifted to Los Alamos.

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The relocation of both corporate operations and the CEO signals a fundamental change in the company’s center of gravity.

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Throughout his career, McConnell had stayed close to the GOP’s ideological center of gravity, which included a rightward march in the 1980s.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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