epicenter
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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
The epicenter of the drone-fueled combat is in central Sudan’s Kordofan region, which is divided into North, South and West Kordofan states.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026
Aldana Ramirez tries to warm up beside a brasero, a type of local heater, on a freezing night at Los Azules copper project in San Juan province, the epicenter of Milei's mining "revolution."
From Barron's • May 23, 2026
“The global semiconductor market is undergoing a seismic transformation,” the report noted, and “the memory segment is at the epicenter of this shift.”
From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026
The hospital at Maridi had been the epicenter of the emergence.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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