as in center
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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Recent Examples of nerve center
Security operations centers have become the nerve center of defense—but also its biggest bottleneck.
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Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
This should be five-alarm fire for Wall Street, an institution that owes much of its success to the existence of a US monetary policy nerve center that is, by law and by tradition, insulated from the whims of any one party or politician.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2025
This proves how much the Fed — and, particularly, its chair — remains the nerve center of the U.S. economy and financial markets.
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2025
The Trump administration wants to cancel purchases of new E-7 jets designed to serve as nerve centers in the sky, where Air Force operators receive signals about what's happening in the air, on the ground, and in the water for hundreds of miles around.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 20 Aug. 2025
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Godfall tells the story of a small Nebraska town, which becomes the center of the world when a giant alien crash lands out of the sky beside it.—
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Mitsubishi is looking to capitalize on rising power needs from data centers, manufacturing, as well as LNG exports, by expanding in the the world's largest gas market, citing domestic consumption, production, exports, and further demand growth.—
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Community development financial institutions are banks, credit unions, loan funds and capital funds that have a mission to provide help to underserved, often low-income or rural, communities.—
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School can be an awful place, where social capital is built on a person’s acceptance by a group, and any difference is sniffed out and mocked, sometimes worse.—
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Fort Worth as a whole has made a strong push to be recognized as a hub for film production.—
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Among other speakers at the Summit was Zach Kokoloff, senior vice president/asset management at Hackman Capital Partners which operates Radford Studio Center in Studio City, a 55-acre hub of stages, offices and support staff.—
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Frequenting some of the city’s smaller concert venues that help Chicago thrive as a live-music mecca.—
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Furano, Japan Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan’s main islands, is a powder mecca.—
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In essence, this would mean that alpha particles (helium nuclei) released by decaying uranium (or some other fissile material) would be focused through engine nozzles to generate thrust.—
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Comets tend to be at their brightest around perihelion, when the increase in solar heating causes icy material in their central coma to vaporize and feed the envelope of gas surrounding the solid nucleus.—
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Stepheny Price is a Writer at Fox News with a focus on West Coast and Midwest news, missing persons, national and international crime stories, homicide cases, and border security.—
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Barra says the focus now is on making cars more affordable, incorporating artificial intelligence and new technology like Google Gemini to make the vehicles safer and appealing to the consumer.—
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Treasury Secretary Bessent called Minnesota ground zero for what may be the most egregious welfare scam in our nation's history to date; 85 of the 98 people who were charged by the Justice Department with this welfare scheme are Somali.—
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Now Good's death is set to be turned into another political football with the Land of 10,000 Lakes once again being the possible ground zero of civil unrest ahead of a critical election, political observers say.—
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At the core of Parkie’s operation is a wireless backbone that allows robots to coordinate movements, receive commands, and relay status data in real time while constantly on the move.—
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It is not included in Moody's core count but accounted for the top sale of November.—
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“Nerve center.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nerve%20center. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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