central idea
Example Sentences
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“His central idea was that to live is to act, transforming oneself and the world around,” Ms. Riskin writes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
My annotations helped me come up with a central idea to use for my final paper, but after a point it was no longer an assignment.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
The central idea was the same: to have more control over their creations.
From BBC • Oct. 26, 2025
The new kind of fair mobility is a central idea of degrowth.
From Salon • May 3, 2024
But the several parts of the story are not grouped around any central idea, such as a divine Nemesis is for Herodotus, or such as Thucydides finds in the nature of political man.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
