nerve center
noun
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: a source of leadership, organization, control, or energy
the financial nerve center of the nation
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Examples of nerve center in a Sentence
the economic nerve center of a nation
Wall Street's undisputed status as the nerve center for the world of high finance.
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The Teamsters recently also joined forces with Amazon workers at an air hub in Kentucky, pushing to unionize a transportation nerve center at the heart of the company's fast shipping.
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Alina Selyukh, NPR, 18 June 2024
Acupressure or acupuncture These techniques, which use gentle pressure or tiny needles to hit certain nerve centers in the body, can be extremely effective in treating nausea.
—Lisa Milbrand, Parents, 13 June 2024
This will require the destruction of Hamas’s nerve center in Gaza City, its underground facilities, and all its aboveground assets, such as military installations, headquarters, command-and-control centers, communications infrastructure, weapons manufacturing facilities, and arms depots.
—Amos Yadlin, Foreign Affairs, 21 Nov. 2023
Expansion continued in 2011, when the county received $6 million in federal funds, along with a county match of $2 million, to build the fiber backbone — the nerve center of a very high-speed network.
—Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2024
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Alina Selyukh, NPR, 18 June 2024
Acupressure or acupuncture These techniques, which use gentle pressure or tiny needles to hit certain nerve centers in the body, can be extremely effective in treating nausea.
—Lisa Milbrand, Parents, 13 June 2024
This will require the destruction of Hamas’s nerve center in Gaza City, its underground facilities, and all its aboveground assets, such as military installations, headquarters, command-and-control centers, communications infrastructure, weapons manufacturing facilities, and arms depots.
—Amos Yadlin, Foreign Affairs, 21 Nov. 2023
Expansion continued in 2011, when the county received $6 million in federal funds, along with a county match of $2 million, to build the fiber backbone — the nerve center of a very high-speed network.
—Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2024
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“Nerve center.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nerve%20center. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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