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locus

[loh-kuhs] / ˈloʊ kəs /




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As sleep continues, growth hormone gradually builds up and stimulates the locus coeruleus, nudging the brain toward waking.

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

The theater’s importance as a locus of intelligent inquiry and intellectual ferment—not momentous, alas—owes a great debt to his influence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

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 • Nov. 7, 2025

Over the past five years, Fiji – a tiny South Pacific nation with a population of less than a million – has become the locus of one of the world's fastest growing HIV epidemics.

From BBC • Oct. 4, 2025

For us, the island had become the locus of the struggle.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela




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