Thesaurus results for AXIS

axis

noun

ˈak-səs

Definition of axis

as in center

a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest in addition to being the suburb's social axis, the country club is the place where deals are made and partnerships are forged

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as in confederacy

an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection an axis of previously nonaligned nations

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Recent Examples of axis The book identifies China-Russia military cooperation as the axis’s most consequential bilateral relationship. — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026 The face cloak worked in three-axis simulations, although it was not given the full thermal bench test. — New Atlas, 29 July 2026 Wilson tries to fire her critique through, if not 12, then at least several axes. — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 27 July 2026 But because Abundance cuts across the conventional left-right axis, New York politicians left, right, and center can all be on the wrong side of it. — Ryder Kessler, New York Daily News, 26 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for axis

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Noun

Both men sat in opposite corners afterward before Reigns walked to the center and offered a fist, and Rollins met it.

— Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
Ebola treatment centers have been attacked by residents fueled by misinformation or anger over strict outbreak measures.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of center

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July 4 birthed independence but also a dysfunctional confederacy.

— Max Taves, Mercury News, 3 July 2026
The headstone, a memorial to texans who served the confederacy, was erected in 1964, which is to say the state missed the hundred-year anniversary of the battle itself but did remember to put it up in the year that Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act.

— Christopher Hooks, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026

Definition of confederacy

Noun

The region’s data centers are important not only to the US military and AI industries but also to the Gulf region, which fancied itself a third global AI hub, along with the United States and China.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026
Whatever solutions are proposed, Scotland has to become a hub for homegrown talent.

— Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of hub

Noun

Those seriously hurt were transported 43 miles away to the capital of North Shewa Administrative Zone, Debre Birhan.

— Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026
The sticky wicket, which has been the stickiest for AI-tech megacaps, is investor angst around capital expenditures and a sluggish pace of return that could send the stock on a nosedive.

— Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of capital

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One of them is Antonio Maíllo, general coordinator of Izquierda Unida, one of the political parties forming a government coalition with Sánchez's Socialist Party.

— Miguel Macias, NPR, 1 Aug. 2026
That coalition mattered because FIFA’s political strength has traditionally rested on balancing competing continental interests.

— Clemente Lisi, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of coalition

Noun

The popular theatre was a cultural mecca that drew thousands to its operas, ballets and other public events, and hosted legendary greats including Maria Callas and Franco Zeffirelli.

— Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
The long-standing problem is that Skid Row is both a social service center and a mecca of drugs and other vices, with traps on every block.

— Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026

Definition of mecca

Noun

Democrats have recently called on Miller to resign, requested a congressional ethics investigation and suggested more help could be directed in the fall toward his Democratic opponent, union ironworker Brian Poindexter.

— Mary Clare Jalonick, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2026
Additionally, 10 of 13 Oregon State women’s basketball players submitted a petition to be recognized as a union by the Oregon Employment Relations Board, the UCAA announced.

— PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 2 Aug. 2026

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