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#1 2013-08-26 11:43:40

burred
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"hubbub of commerce" for hub

Harboring major industries from automotive, computing, high tech, agriculture, sports, arts, it is a hubbub of commerce and more.
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Faro (DOC) comes from the vineyards of the Straits of Messina. Area was an ancient wine-growing and wine-trading hubbub for the natives & Phoenicians.
http://www.around-sicily.com/Pagina.asp … SICILYWINE

Georgia State University is a diverse institution with about 30,000 students. It is located in the heart of Atlanta, a hubbub of commerce and industry.
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All that commercial activity makes for a lot of brouhaha and hullabaloo.

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#2 2013-08-26 12:55:50

DavidTuggy
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Re: "hubbub of commerce" for hub

This one is standard for one family of in-law relatives. Another excellent source, for whom it is not standard, came up with

She can’t imagine not being at the hubbub of the commotion

which is an especially beautiful context.


*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .

(Possible Corollary: it is, and we are .)

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