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centre
(redirected from centering around)

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be/take centre stage (British, American)
to be the most important thing or person at an event or in a situation, or to be the thing or person that people notice most. A new range of electric cars will be centre stage at next month's exhibition.
See also: stage, take

left, right and centre (British, informal, American, informal, American, informal)

if something bad is happening left, right and centre, it is happening in a lot of places or to a lot of people. They were firing at people left, right and centre. The Postal Service has been losing customers left and right these past couple of years.
See also: right
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There's a certain amount of erotic/religious imagery centering around a Christ-like deer pierced with arrows.
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Howard Responds: The prevailing wisdom is that chocolate contains caffeine in low amounts, but there is debate in the scientific literature, mainly centering around the difficulty in distinguishing between caffeine and theobromine, a closely related compound.
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Lewis (author of the acclaimed Narnia series), and Thich Nhat Hanh (founder of "socially engaged" Buddhism), as well as more general entries discussion childhood spiritual experiences, the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, the Stage-Structural Approach to Religious Development, and a diverse array of other issues centering around such themes as religious and spiritual concepts and practices, organizations, connections between nature and spirituality, and much more.
Encyclopedia of Religious and Spiritual Development by Buhle, Willis M. / Reviewer's Bookwatch
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