How to Use locus in a Sentence

locus

noun
  • The area became a locus of resistance to the government.
  • The Bering Sea has been a locus of climate change for decades.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The locus of concern is in the world’s ocean of corporate debt, worth $74trn.
    The Economist, 12 Mar. 2020
  • The company’s brand was sort of like the locus of power.
    Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2022
  • The stakes were clear this weekend as the White House became the locus for a second outbreak of the virus in a month.
    Zeke Miller and Alexandra Jaffe, chicagotribune.com, 26 Oct. 2020
  • The locus shifted the next three years to Huntington Beach and Long Beach.
    Joe Mozingo, oregonlive, 16 May 2021
  • If Mormonism is weird, where is the locus of its weirdness?
    Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The stakes were clear this past weekend as the White House became the locus for a second outbreak of the virus in a month.
    Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2020
  • Kid Gloves The YouTube case presents a unique locus for those frustrations.
    Wired, 4 Sep. 2019
  • In the east the north China plain served as the locus of the proto-Han civilization.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2013
  • The bench had become the locus of a kind of unhurried urban idyll.
    Anne Quito, Quartzy, 24 Sep. 2019
  • The groundwork was laid years ago for the changes along the stretch of West Markham Street, a locus of city government offices.
    Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Chicago was the locus of urban blues and the center of the burgeoning gospel scene.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
  • Santa Clara County has been the locus of one of the largest nursing home outbreaks in the region.
    Dominic Fracassa, SFChronicle.com, 1 May 2020
  • Guards keep the curious away from an overgrown orchard that appears to be the locus of the search.
    BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2021
  • One region that was more active in helpless mice was the locus coeruleus.
    Andrew Reiner, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2018
  • The area also happens to be the locus of the Midwestern shift of voters from Obama to Trump.
    New York Times, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Chicago is not the market or the setting but the locus of production.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The West Coast also was the locus for the hottest digital theater company in the land.
    Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2020
  • In it, the singer performs at that locus of American life and TikTok dance videos: the gas station.
    Halle Kiefer, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Dating back to the days of the late Roy Leonard, the show long has been a locus for arts and entertainment coverage.
    Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 11 Dec. 2020
  • In Clinton’s vision, a job was the locus of assistance, the door through which all other help would pass.
    Alex Park / Made By History, TIME, 24 Sep. 2024
  • People just flocked to it because there had been no locus for the literary life.
    John McMurtrie, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2018
  • That inventiveness extends to the design of the well house where the kids discover the locus of the town's nightmare.
    Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 14 Sep. 2017
  • The choice of a church or temple as the locus for the shooting made the act more than just an incident of personal hatred.
    Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, 27 Oct. 2018
  • The locus of that effort was in Indigenous boarding schools around the country.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Cities tend to be the locus for most immigrants – 25% of workers in German cities are ‘foreign born’.
    Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 4 June 2022
  • There is no way for such a locus to exist only in opposing octants of a cube.
    Quanta Magazine, 29 June 2018
  • But what’s so interesting about this book is how the locus of what was cool and the public spaces where new music was being fostered were also shifting around, even within the space of a few blocks.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Sep. 2024
  • What makes Industry such a rich viewing experience is how its locus of control bends toward the external.
    Zachary Siegel, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2024

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