active centre
Britishnoun
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Olga Mayans and Jennifer Fleming created a three-dimensional model of its enzyme structure and active centre to understand the reaction pathway.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 10, 2023
By 1700 Boston had already overtaken Oxford and Cambridge to become the second most active centre of publishing of English books after London.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2013
Such was his conception of the man who now became Secretary to the Duke of York, and an active centre of intrigue.
From Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
During the Civil War, until its temporary occupation by Federal forces in 1863, and subsequent effective blockade, it was an active centre of operations of Confederate blockade runners.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various
His disregard of popular desire suggests the fatal ease with which we neglect the opinion of those who stand outside the active centre of political conflict.
From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Harold Joseph Laski
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