as in centers
a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest
a city that likes to regard itself as the nation's navel of art and culture
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Recent Examples of navels
This is not a condemnation; there are bad brains and there are good navels.
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Sloane Crosley, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Sloane Crosley, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for navels
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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
Noun
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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
Noun
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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
Noun
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With one day left to declare candidacy in the race for Los Angeles mayor, all eyes are on Rick Caruso, the billionaire developer behind outdoor shopping meccas like The Grove.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Feb. 2026
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After all, the Moroccan city is one of the world's great shopping meccas.—
Elizabeth Cantrell,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Oct. 2025
Noun
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And the birds are chirping their hearts out.—
Joe Kinsey OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
27 Apr. 2026
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With the winter behind us in the far rearview mirror, spring is consuming our senses and filling our hearts with blossoms and blooms.—
Kyle Thomas,
PEOPLE,
26 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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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Core players giving their squad a high baseline is always vital in the playoffs, and the Ducks finally have some chance at hanging with other teams’ nuclei thanks to Carlsson and Gauthier’s ongoing emergence.—
Andrew Knoll,
Oc Register,
19 Apr. 2026
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First, in most materials, the thorium nuclei release their energy not as light, but through a process called internal conversion, where the energy is transferred to an electron in the material instead.—
Andrei Derevianko,
The Conversation,
14 Apr. 2026
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Only one Republican state has a relatively clear path to gaining seats from the decision in time for the midterms — Florida.—
Nicholas Riccardi,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
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This election will not change that balance because five seats are held by union-friendly incumbents.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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“Navels.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/navels. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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