centrifugal
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- a tending to move away from a center
centrifugal force - s tending away from centralization, as of authority
the division of Europe into warring blocs produces ever-increasing centrifugal stress - s conveying information to the muscles from the CNS
- In India, the creation of a Bengali state next door to its own impoverished West Bengal state could very well strengthen the centrifugal forces that have tugged at the country .
- But jihadism is an especially centrifugal force, flinging adherents across borders until what we still notionally call al-Qaeda exists everywhere and nowhere, more an impulse than .
- Some argue the world has entered a long boom, a kind of economic speed loop, where the centrifugal force spins off nothing but wealth and happiness.