be an element of

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However, Walsh did acknowledge in an interview that “there may be an element of messaging” in the three most recent initiatives and getting them on the ballot will be “tough.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 9, 2024

Having lost to 22-year-old Zeppieri in their only meeting four years ago on the Rome clay, Norrie said there would be an element of revenge in his mind.

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2024

Love may not be blind, but there may be an element of calculus in succeeding at it.

From Salon • Oct. 12, 2023

“When I came to New York, I was a teenager, and to become an actor there has to be an element of self-involvement, a deep kind of self-involvement,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2023

But it was thought that if he were once nominated he would find it impossible to decline, and that his previous refusal would be an element of strength and not of weakness in the country.

From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by Hoar, George Frisbie