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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If the centrality of his creations in films like “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad” and “The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms” didn’t prove that he was proud of his work, Harryhausen would gladly tell you himself.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
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
Now happily re-established at the Castro, the festival intends to stay put, much to the satisfaction of its devotees, who always celebrated the location’s urban centrality and proximity to numerous transit lines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
But it is a mark of maize’s social, cultural, and even political centrality that it was the first—and for centuries the only—phenomenon to pass from Mexico to the Andes.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
“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 Clayton Meeker Hamilton
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 Gaius Glenn Atkins
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