nerve center
Example Sentences
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An evocatively realized setting such as Ms. Bigelow’s Washington nerve center can be ample reason to make a movie worth seeing, but three others that were overflowing with local atmosphere offered far more than that.
This month, the Indiana Chamber of Commerce, which is not in the habit of selling itself as a nerve center of wokeitude, tweeted out its “strong opposition” to a proposed anti-E.S.G. bill there.
From New York Times
Cairo — the real city, that is — has long been a nerve center of Arab comic art’s revival.
From Washington Post
He is the offense’s nerve center and the franchise’s emotional ballast.
From Washington Post
Video from surveillance drones played on large screens inside the CAOC, which Pentagon literature described as “the nerve center of the air campaign.”
From Washington Times
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