ground zero

Speech parts

1. ground zero - Noun

2. Ground zero - Proper noun

Meaning

the point of detonation (or above or below) of a nuclear weapon

the site of the World Trade Center before it was destroyed

the target of a projectile (as a bomb or missile)

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People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero. Sarah Palin

Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate. Sarah Palin

Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so. Ralph Peters

The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials who were charged with the reconstruction of the site and the neighborhood all the way back in 2001. John Podhoretz

When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome. Leif Garrett

For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero. Michelle Williams

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