centerless
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a word derived from
center.
centernounthe middle point, as the point within a circle or sphere equally distant from all points of the circumference or surface, or the point within a regular polygon equally distant from the vertices.
Example Sentences
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“Her Loss” is frisky and centerless, a mood more than a mode.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
But his reluctance also makes for a centerless, sometimes frustrating book that is uncertain about what kind of portrait of American life it means to present.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
Ever since I landed in Cleveland the previous day, the landscape had been the same, a sort of centerless, semi-urban sprawl of highways, subdivisions, shopping malls, warehouses, gas stations and factories.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2015
The great challenge facing those early Mad Men was the crushing uniformity and repetition of those suburbs, the centerless rows of ranch houses and colonials, bereft of community.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2010
She takes her stylus and carves the same centerless sun Adinkra symbol into the ground.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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