How to Use nexus in a Sentence

nexus

noun
  • One of the events focused on the nexus of fat and tannin.
    — Ted Loos, Robb Report, 26 Nov. 2022
  • The group’s work was the nexus for a story about the couple in Vice News.
    — cleveland, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The apartment complex became the nexus of the Vine world.
    — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
  • In fact, the nexus between Fox and Trump has long been close.
    — John Wagner, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2019
  • The Chicago Cubs have been at the nexus of the two biggest baseball trades of the last week.
    — Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The nexus between us and the ocean could soon be a little stronger thanks to U-Boat Worx.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Count how many times some of the key figures in the Trump/Ukraine nexus are mentioned.
    — Allan Smith, NBC News, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Eight years in, the town hasn’t become a global-trade nexus.
    — Youyou Zhou, Quartz, 26 Oct. 2019
  • Pierce has placed himself at the nexus of these efforts.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2021
  • In the nexus of patient activism and science, there is hope for a cure.
    — Sheana Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The island range was the jumping-off point for kitchen design and is now the nexus for the entire kitchen.
    — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The nexus of the whole story is that Ruby is not allowed to go into the ocean.
    — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 28 June 2023
  • The church sits at a nexus of faith, politics and celebrity.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2020
  • Officials are still trying to determine the cause of the fire and the the nexus for the narcotics.
    — Colleen Shalbystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Mendelsohn has long thrived in the nexus of tech and politics.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 7 Aug. 2020
  • One company, Locke Bio, stands at the nexus of these two trends.
    — Bruce Rogers, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
  • In the journey ahead, blessed are the quarterbacks who find themselves in the happy nexus of the right time and the right place.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Same with the founding of The Undefeated, a website at the nexus of race and sports.
    — Richard Deitsch, SI.com, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Well, the channel happens to be a massive storm-pipe nexus.
    — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi sits at the heart of this nexus of operations.
    — Howard Yu, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Visionaire was a nexus of the who’s who in fashion and art, and its offices were the place to see and be seen.
    — Christine Whitney, The Cut, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Wyatt Earp has always been the nexus around which the Tombstone myth was built.
    — Paul Sedan, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2020
  • Will this release appeal to the nexus of whiskey and Elvis fans that must be out there somewhere?
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2021
  • But the WorkLB approach brings a more direct nexus to employment and the work world.
    — Michael Bernick, Forbes, 2 June 2021
  • Gilbert was a nexus for the beatings, but police failed to connect the attacks.
    — Jimmy Jenkins, Arizona Republic, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The home had served as CGF’s legal address and shipping nexus for years.
    — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2018
  • And somebody in that nexus scribbled it down on a napkin.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • Smith, in particular, has been a tremendous voice on the nexus of race and sports.
    — Richard Deitsch, SI.com, 17 Dec. 2017
  • Gibney even directed an episode of Billions, the Showtime drama about the nexus of Wall Street greed, political interests and dodgy prosecutors.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 15 Apr. 2025
  • At the nexus of these efforts by the administration is a push to centralize ever-greater power at the federal level, never mind that Republicans have long been the standard-bearers for the federalist principle of states’ rights.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2025

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