all-important element
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But the hearings also employ the all-important element of unpredictability, keeping its most quotable segments under wraps until broadcast.
From Salon • Jun. 15, 2022
Defensively, U.S. bases provide the all-important element of dispersal.
From Time Magazine Archive
Carbon is a kind of natural backbone: the all-important element that anchors the molecules of everything from crude oil to DNA.
From Time Magazine Archive
Because the all-important element of distance is omitted.
From First and Last by Belloc, Hilaire
She might at least have made of Gilfoyle that all-important element of the Republic, a respectable, amiable, ordinary man, perhaps the father of children who would be of value, even of glory, to the world.
From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert
