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• a  tending to move toward a center
  centripetal force
• s  tending to unify
• s  of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system

• And with its own constitution recently turned 25, centrifugal and centripetal forces threaten to upset Spains jigsaw of 17 autonomous regions.
• The only substantial character in the play is Golda, played with centripetal force by Anne Bancroft.
• She also has a grip on the elementary physics of gender: women are centripetal, the force that binds.

• unifying
• receptive
• sensory

• centrifugal

News & Articles

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• How Goliaths Beat Themselves: Microsoft's Mobile Failure and the Innovator's Dilemma
  At giants like Microsoft, success creates its own centripetal force that can make it impossible to invest in the future        
  Aug. 28, 2013 - The Atlantic

Quotes

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• Angela Merkel in AFP
  I do worry about the centripetal tendencies in our political and social life......far too many of our political leaders prefer to identify themselves first in terms of their sectional and sectarian identity and only then in terms of the national... Manmohan Singh http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manmohan_Singh&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNH6ZyRkwy1bOgMraS9dZn9q9TYvkg Sakaal Times http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.sakaaltimes.com/2008/12/27202233/PM-decries-votebank-politics.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHybjOBI40Bgjm5Cg21D8Z-ChBKog Dec 27, 2008 16263 22563 centrism Merkel said Germany needed a policy of moderation, centrism and practical reason" to face what economists say could be the worst downturn since the Great Depression in the 1930s.