ground zero

Elizabeth Taylor and Burton were ground zero of what we see today.

A thirty-four-year-old physicist named Andrei Sakharov stood with scientists and Soviet officials on an outdoor platform about forty miles from ground zero.

Jamaica's Prime Minister Andrew Holness has described Black River as "ground zero" after sharing footage of the destruction there.

Academics, educators and critics alike refer to Oklahoma as ground zero for pushing education to the right.

For Elon Musk, ground zero of the AI arms race is a 114-acre tract of grass and swamp on the state line of Tennessee and Mississippi.