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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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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Yet the nerve center of wine culture, that magnetic force that draws in newer, younger generations of wine drinkers despite a global downturn in wine sales, marches to an entirely different beat.
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Anna Lee C. Iijima, Bon Appétit, 22 Jan. 2025
Maltz retired from the DEA in 2014 after serving as special agent in charge of its Special Operations Division (SOD), a multi-agency nerve center in Chantilly, Virginia that coordinates U.S. international drug- and crime-fighting efforts.
—Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2025
The State Department's Global Engagement Center, the highly touted nerve center for coordinating U.S. efforts to counter foreign disinformation – especially by Russia and China – shut down this week after becoming a lightning rod for conservative criticism.
—Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
And so, in Hudson Square, an elevated railway station got sheared off, stripped down, and extended into a Google nerve center (by CookFox).
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 12 Dec. 2024
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Anna Lee C. Iijima, Bon Appétit, 22 Jan. 2025
Maltz retired from the DEA in 2014 after serving as special agent in charge of its Special Operations Division (SOD), a multi-agency nerve center in Chantilly, Virginia that coordinates U.S. international drug- and crime-fighting efforts.
—Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2025
The State Department's Global Engagement Center, the highly touted nerve center for coordinating U.S. efforts to counter foreign disinformation – especially by Russia and China – shut down this week after becoming a lightning rod for conservative criticism.
—Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024
And so, in Hudson Square, an elevated railway station got sheared off, stripped down, and extended into a Google nerve center (by CookFox).
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Nerve center.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nerve%20center. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
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