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nerve centre
noun
- a group of nerve cells associated with a specific function
- a principal source of control over any complex activity
Wall Street is the financial nerve centre of America
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His office, in which I was permitted to take notes for several days, is a nerve-centre of the world.
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A thousand needles shot through him—every one, it seemed, passing through a nerve-centre and back the same path again.
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There are still no compact muscles, like our own, much less ganglion or brain or nerve-centre of individuality.
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Most people call him a nerve centre, but you wouldn't understand that, so I say wait and see.
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But in this case also it is necessary that the nerve-centre be sound.
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