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nerve center

noun

  1. a group of nerve cells closely connected with one another and acting together in the performance of some function.
  2. a source of information, authority, action, etc.:

    The communications room is the nerve center of a battleship.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of nerve center1

First recorded in 1865–70
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If we were to squeeze through small cracks in his mind’s cavern walls or crawl down its miniaturized hallways toward Erickson's nerve center, we might find ourselves in a room with a broken printer.

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Getting to the hospital’s nerve center these days involves navigating past 15-foot concrete barricades and multiple blast doors, then descending several floors into a labyrinthine subterranean complex.

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Its Capitol Hill headquarters serve as something of a counterweight to the Conservative Partnership Institute, which operates nearby as the nerve center of the right.

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The underground bunker, built to replace the destroyed command center in the months after Russia’s invasion, is a secret nerve center of Ukraine’s military.

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One panel report described the agency as a censorship “nerve center.”

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