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An example use of hub in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… worked in tech at the hub of innovation …”
Hub is a city in the United States.
the word hub occurs in english on average 6.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that hub can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;
2) transport and travel;