locus
Example Sentences
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Minnesota was a pioneer in using federal Medicaid dollars to pay for other forms of social assistance such as housing, which is the locus of several fraud schemes.
The theater’s importance as a locus of intelligent inquiry and intellectual ferment—not momentous, alas—owes a great debt to his influence.
New York, whose rhythms and swagger seemed to match that of the country’s booming economy, became the locus for much of this activity.
One of the factories the companies built in Hemlock in the 1960s has become the locus of Corning’s solar and semiconductor business.
From Barron's
In Christianity, the individual believer was untethered from a wider religious community and became the locus of meaning and authority.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
