"storm center" meaning in All languages combined

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    {
      "form": "storm centers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "storm center (plural storm centers)",
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    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1908, Teresa Billington-Greig, “The Storm Centre of the Woman Suffrage Movement”, in The International, page 109:",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1910 October 20, Henry Louis Mencken, “On Lawlessness”, in The Evening Sun:",
          "text": "The storm center of lawlessness in every American State is the State Capitol. It is there that the worst crimes are committed; it is there that lawbreaking attains to the estate and dignity of a learned profession; it is there that contempt for the laws is engendered, fostered, and spread broadcast.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1926, Survey of International Affairs, page 392:",
          "text": "After the close of the War of 1914-18 the storm-centre of international affairs, which for the past half-century had hovered over the Near and Middle East and for the previous four centuries over Central Europe, had apparently shifted to the Pacific area.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 May 4, risky biz, “Another Vancouver hate crime?”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet):",
          "text": "It doesn't look like HE spends his days on a poker newsgroup attempting to convince half a dozen people that he really is a lawyer, really has clients, really practices law, and doesn't pretend that the condo he bought 30 years ago for $200,000 is the storm center of a powerhouse legal practice.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A central place of great activity and importance."
      ],
      "id": "en-storm_center-en-noun-9zP7hUdr",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) A central place of great activity and importance."
      ],
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        "figuratively"
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    }
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  "word": "storm center"
}

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      "form": "storm centers",
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      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "storm center (plural storm centers)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1908, Teresa Billington-Greig, “The Storm Centre of the Woman Suffrage Movement”, in The International, page 109:",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1910 October 20, Henry Louis Mencken, “On Lawlessness”, in The Evening Sun:",
          "text": "The storm center of lawlessness in every American State is the State Capitol. It is there that the worst crimes are committed; it is there that lawbreaking attains to the estate and dignity of a learned profession; it is there that contempt for the laws is engendered, fostered, and spread broadcast.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1926, Survey of International Affairs, page 392:",
          "text": "After the close of the War of 1914-18 the storm-centre of international affairs, which for the past half-century had hovered over the Near and Middle East and for the previous four centuries over Central Europe, had apparently shifted to the Pacific area.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 May 4, risky biz, “Another Vancouver hate crime?”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet):",
          "text": "It doesn't look like HE spends his days on a poker newsgroup attempting to convince half a dozen people that he really is a lawyer, really has clients, really practices law, and doesn't pretend that the condo he bought 30 years ago for $200,000 is the storm center of a powerhouse legal practice.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A central place of great activity and importance."
      ],
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        "(figurative) A central place of great activity and importance."
      ],
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        "figuratively"
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    }
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  "word": "storm center"
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