epicenter
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“And judging by Monday’s price action, this is certainly not looking like a bundle of joy for Korean investors waking up to find their market at the epicenter of the global AI unwind.”
From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026
Images showed extensive damage, including collapsed buildings, in the city of General Santos, the town closest to the epicenter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
It’s a “little epicenter of maritime lawlessness,” said Michelle Bockmann, a maritime intelligence analyst at Windward, saying ships used a “smorgasbord of deceptive shipping tactics” to stay off authorities’ radars.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
Raised in Harlem, the epicenter of African American culture, Rollins recalled that his early musical education came from the Apollo Theater where he would watch its celebrated amateur nights.
From Barron's • May 26, 2026
They radiate from the epicenter, shaking the ground like buried thunder, traveling the globe in less than twenty minutes.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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