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a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest
Wall Street's undisputed status as the nerve center for the world of high finance
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Messenger Plus users will also be able to send photos and voice messages to Garmin Response, the company’s emergency nerve center for SOS dispatch efforts, when an SOS is triggered.
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Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 20 Sep. 2024
Some reorganized their nerve centers, as South Korea did with its Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency.
—Swee Kheng Khor, Foreign Affairs, 21 Sep. 2020
Competing for Sweden offered some practical benefits: the nerve center of the sport is in Europe, where most major competitions take place.
—Sean Gregory, TIME, 31 July 2024
That effort was led by the DEA and its multi-agency Special Operations Division nerve center in Chantilly, Va., but the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security also played crucial roles, Donovan said.
—Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 28 July 2024
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Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 20 Sep. 2024
Some reorganized their nerve centers, as South Korea did with its Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency.
—Swee Kheng Khor, Foreign Affairs, 21 Sep. 2020
Competing for Sweden offered some practical benefits: the nerve center of the sport is in Europe, where most major competitions take place.
—Sean Gregory, TIME, 31 July 2024
That effort was led by the DEA and its multi-agency Special Operations Division nerve center in Chantilly, Va., but the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security also played crucial roles, Donovan said.
—Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 28 July 2024
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Virginia Highland Books is in the center of beautiful, historic Virginia-Highlands, located on the corner of Virginia and N. Highland Avenues.American Booksellers Association, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2024
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Slowly, ideas that Xiao and his allies had propagated decades ago—the stabilizing force of the strongman and a reverence for cultural traditions—seem to have arrived in the control center of the world’s most powerful liberal democracy.Chang Che, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2024
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Meanwhile, the de facto administrative capital of Sejong in central South Korea is the youngest with just 11.57 percent being elderly.Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 25 Dec. 2024
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Hanukkah celebrates Jews’ successful assertion of their right to live freely in their ancestral homeland with Jerusalem as its capital, and warns that without Israel, Jews cannot be truly free anywhere.Jon Levin, National Review, 25 Dec. 2024
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Lakehouses are rapidly becoming the hub for building advanced intelligence, providing a foundation for analytics and model training.Evan Kaplan, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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Join in the fun and stay just 10 minutes away from the musical hub at Floyd Family Campground, which is outfitted with premium and primitive tent sites and dry (without utilities) and full hookup RV sites.Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2024
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Advertisement My dad’s restaurant was a mecca for movie stars and politicians, bullfighters and beautiful women.Carolynn Carreño, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
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Those two events reinforced his place on the island — widely considered the mecca and home of reggaeton — and won him an undeniable seal of approval from an audience that has high standards for the genre.Juan J. Arroyo, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2024
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Comets are made of ice, dust and rocky material, while a dead comet is one that has lost most of its ice, leaving just the rocky asteroid-like nucleus.David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
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Fusion, the process of fusing atomic nuclei to release vast amounts of energy, is the same reaction that powers stars like our Sun.New Atlas, New Atlas, 22 Dec. 2024
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How To Lead Hybrid Teams Effective leadership in hybrid teams requires a shift in focus.Corey Digi, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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Jennifer is a senior reporter at Ars Technica with a particular focus on where science meets culture, covering everything from physics and related interdisciplinary topics to her favorite films and TV series.Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2024
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At the core of intelligent system design is the principle of instrumentation and iterative improvement.Evan Kaplan, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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However, at its core, nuclear arms control has worked due to the sheer destructive potential of nuclear weapons.Luke Widenhouse, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Dec. 2024
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Higher education | School shooters California Democrats open special session to Trump-proof state priorities DACA recipients worry their protection from deportation won’t last another Trump term A California federal court was ground zero for hashing out Trump’s border policies.Paul Krugman, The Mercury News, 29 Nov. 2024
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As the news headlines show, Greenland’s ice sheet is ground zero of earth’s shifting climate.Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 21 Nov. 2024
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“Nerve center.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nerve%20center. Accessed 3 Jan. 2025.
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