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as in centers
a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest
an area of the Southwest that has been the locus of a number of New Agey movements
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as in locations
the area or space occupied by or intended for something
the locus of brightness occurs where the rays of sunlight converge in front of the lens
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Recent Examples of loci
Market segmentation, especially demographic segmentation based on age, loci, socioeconomic status index, and household life cycle, also became frequent in market analysis.
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Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026
Humans and golden retrievers were found to share common psychiatric-cognitive-temperamental loci.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026
Humans and golden retrievers were found to share common psychiatric-cognitive-temperamental loci.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for loci
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Arguably the two top centers in Iowa’s Logan Jones and Florida’s Jake Slaughter went off the board within the final eight picks of the second round.—
Jeff Zrebiec,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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Hyundai will supply its HiMSEN engines Data centers are the backbone of modern digital services, from cloud computing to artificial intelligence applications.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Apr. 2026
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Officials said the changes do not affect early voting locations and only apply to in-person voting on Election Day.—
Kaley Fedko,
CBS News,
28 Apr. 2026
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The three locations, which have 256 apartments combined, had 522 tows over two years.—
Ginny Monk,
Hartford Courant,
28 Apr. 2026
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Kyiv has asked Turkey to help facilitate top-level talks and has reached out to other capitals as potential hosts, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said, adding that Ukraine would consider any venue outside Russia and Belarus.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
22 Apr. 2026
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Iran responded quickly, hitting infrastructure across Gulf capitals and throwing the region, and millions of barrels of oil, into chaos.—
Emma Graham,Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
21 Apr. 2026
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Mario Mota told council members at the Tuesday hearing that hundreds of the new vehicles would police the eight Olympic venues within city boundaries.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
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That podium is being replicated for one of the brand’s activations at Fontainebleau Miami Beach, one of the venues where the Champagne brand is also popping up, in addition to the Miami Beach Edition and Seaspice.—
James Manso,
Footwear News,
1 May 2026
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Flights to and from smaller California hubs such as Sacramento and Burbank have been canceled, while Air Canada and German airline Lufthansa slashed routes from their summer schedules earlier this month.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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In parallel, the Inglewood Transit Connector plan aims to improve mobility between Market Street and the city’s sports and entertainment district, with elements including mobility hubs, bus rotaries, pickup and dropoff areas, and a public parking structure.—
Kaila Yu,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 Apr. 2026
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Creator and showrunner Katie Dippold’s fascination with such places began at an early age, growing up in New Jersey, where her family would take trips to the shore.—
Maira Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
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Sites that preserve soft-bodied organisms are even rarer because soft tissues decompose more easily, making these places especially useful for piecing together prehistoric ecosystems.—
Marlowe Starling,
Quanta Magazine,
1 May 2026
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In its announcement Thursday, the Lucas has revealed the thematic compositions of the majority of these galleries, which range from focuses on specific artists to medium-specific hangs.—
Maximilíano Durón,
ARTnews.com,
30 Apr. 2026
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Running April 23-May 3, the Canary Islands event returns with more than 100 titles spanning competition, retrospectives, live-score screenings and special focuses.—
Emiliano de Pablos,
Variety,
23 Apr. 2026
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Totem poles, after all, marked sites of significance.—
Glenn Adamson,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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Many of the foundations—which act as the legal holding sites of collections preserved after an artists’ death—have reached such heights as the values of the works have swelled.—
Angelica Villa,
ARTnews.com,
1 May 2026
Cite this Entry
“Loci.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loci. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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