revolve around
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[edit]revolve around (third-person singular simple present revolves around, present participle revolving around, simple past and past participle revolved around)
- (literally) To rotate about (an axis); to orbit.
- The Earth revolves around the Sun.
- (idiomatic) To be essentially connected with; to concern.
- His life revolves around beer and bad jokes.
- 2003, Robert J. Shimonski et al., Building DMZs For Enterprise Networks[1], Syngress, page 50:
- In Chapter 1 we learned the fundamental security concepts revolving around the DMZ, what the DMZ is, and how to design a basic DMZ with traffic flows.
- 2014, Besfort T. Rrecaj, The Politics of Legal Regimes of Nuclear Energy in the Aspect of International Security[2], page 11:
- However, at that time I was already into the mode and interest of another important topic of international law revolving around the principle of sovereignty and territorial integrity and self-determination related mainly to secessionist movements.
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