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- noun Plural form of
epicenter .
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MEDERSKI: Basically, we have cases that have occurred in our hospital during the previous outbreak as well as the one ongoing right now who appear to have no connection with anyone who is actively ill, but who come from areas of the world that have already been defined as epicenters of the disease.
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Their epicenters were a few kilometers outside Lorca, in a region that has long been considered among the most vulnerable to quakes in the Iberian Peninsula because of its proximity to a large fault beneath the Mediterranean.
NYT > Global Home By RAPHAEL MINDER 2011
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Major metropolitan areas are still considered to be the "epicenters" of generalized epidemics.
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Major metropolitan areas are still considered to be the "epicenters" of generalized epidemics.
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For three years the world has been shaken by economic earthquakes with epicenters in the old-money countries of Europe, the U.S. and literally Japan.
Emerging Questions on Growth Path David Wessel 2012
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So in Florida, Arizona and California, among other epicenters of the housing bubble, newspapers might have told their readers -- including governmental officials -- the difficult truth.
Boing Boing 2009
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Henderson is one of the epicenters of the housing collapse, Lang says.
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All find their epicenters in America: big data, smart manufacturing and the wireless revolution.
The Coming Tech-led Boom Mark P. Mills 2012
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"Not only is it one of the epicenters of the HIV epidemic along with New York, but we like to get back funding from places where we have invested research."
Oscar Raymundo: Chaka Khan, Andy Cohen, and Alan Cumming Celebrate amfAR's 25th Anniversary at Ken Fulk's Studio Oscar Raymundo 2011
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It hasn't been much of a secret that the foreclosure earthquakes have epicenters in both California and Florida.
Discourse.net: 35 Counties in USA Have Half the Foreclosures -- and Boy Are We One of Them 2009
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