centrality
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centralities
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a central position or state.
the centrality of the sun.
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a vital, critical, or important position.
the centrality of education to modern civilization.
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Given the dollar’s centrality within the global financial system, fluctuations in the currency’s value are likely to have spillover effects in other markets.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
Burnham would not be the first prime minister to try to challenge the centrality of the Treasury's role in Whitehall.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Saudi state media boasted the country’s emergence as a major non-NATO ally for the U.S., and the signing of a so-called Strategic Defense Agreement as demonstrating Riyadh’s centrality to American strategic thinking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2025
We can’t know for certain if the Values Bridge data reveals a slow trend away from the centrality of family in the American psyche or a sudden drop, or why in either case.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
Madison countered that centrality could be measured demographically as well as geographically, so they should await the results of the census of 1790 before deciding.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
“We already have centralities outside of Paris,” Paul Lecroart, an urbanist at the regional planning association, said recently.
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2023
They deal with outsides and surfaces, not with centralities and profundities.
From The Theory of the Theatre by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker
Certainly theology is not so static as an earlier paragraph would seem to indicate, none the less the great theological centralities do possess an immense power of resistance.
From Modern Religious Cults and Movements by Atkins, Gaius Glenn
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