ground zero
Example Sentences
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What to keep and what to toss is a battle, and our basement is ground zero.
Elizabeth Taylor and Burton were ground zero of what we see today.
From Los Angeles Times
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.
From Literature
Jamaica's Prime Minister Andrew Holness has described Black River as "ground zero" after sharing footage of the destruction there.
From BBC
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
