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centre
(redirected from centring on)

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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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In May 2000, the Vatican revealed its interpretation of this prophecy, centring on the assassination attempt on the Pope in May 1981.
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The dominant form of the monument occupies most of the large rectangular site centring on an oblique crevice or path that dissects the monumental burial ground.
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That simple evangelical creed, centring on how each of us should use our lives, needs recreating by secular means,' he writes.
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