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center

[sen-ter] / ˈsɛn tər /






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“Since then, she has improved once more,” the center said Monday.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

Three new factories are set for just Arkansas, a center of U.S. weapons production.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

The domestic violence center run by Jewish Family Service LA is a safe haven — as long as it can afford to operate.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

The Nvidia-OpenAI deal looks even more unusual when considering the electricity required to power the Ohio data center.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

Unlike Celia, who’s working as an assistant counselor at the camp at the rec center.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

But it’s the rift between May and Lotta that centers this busy story, which includes more subplots than can be quickly synopsized here.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

SINGAPORE—For decades, founders and investors in China’s technology firms used tax-haven shell companies to list overseas and keep billions of dollars in offshore centers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

Making the vehicle fully reusable will better allow the company to improve its Starlink satellite-internet service and put data centers in orbit.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

In this recent expansion, private schools have opened in farms and barns, addiction treatment centers, co-working spaces, people’s homes and parks, ProPublica’s review of 13 states found.

From Salon Jul. 27, 2026

A full nine days after the order was issued, they were still trapped in their homes and evacuation centers, and they were running out of food.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

Humans and every other vertebrate may share an astonishingly strange ancestor: a tiny creature with a single eye centered on the top of its head.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

One of the night’s longest detours centered on Trump’s planned White House ballroom.

From Salon Jul. 25, 2026

That blockade centered on the Bab al Mandeb strait, the only southbound route for Saudi tankers headed to Asian markets.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

Much of the craze has centered around the models' ability to sidestep structural constraints, including strict historic-preservation rules in many European cities that restrict exterior-wall modifications such as drilling for external AC units.

From BBC Jul. 16, 2026

The battle is always centered in the self.

From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

In Memphis, Tenn., 31-year old Justin Pearson is finding support by centering data-center opposition in his Democratic campaign for Congress.

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 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

She calls herself a “Jewish woman challenging the incumbent” and is centering her campaign on public safety, including law enforcement, fire and probation, emergency preparedness and confronting antisemitism.

From Los Angeles Times May 1, 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

When work resumed, the flying buttresses of the choir were completed and the centering was readied for the first stones of the vault.

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




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