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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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.
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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
Here, home to low-income elderly people, in one of Miami’s pockets of el exilio, is the nerve center.
—Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
More:Is Nashville the nation's new conservative-media nerve center?
—Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 12 Nov. 2024
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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
Here, home to low-income elderly people, in one of Miami’s pockets of el exilio, is the nerve center.
—Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
More:Is Nashville the nation's new conservative-media nerve center?
—Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 12 Nov. 2024
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“Nerve center.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nerve%20center. Accessed 24 Jan. 2025.
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