crucial

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Much still hinges on the return of freely flowing shipping and tanker traffic through the crucial Strait of Hormuz, a central focus on day two of the U.S.-Iran cease-fire deal.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

Other products, including jet fuel and fertilizer, also pass through the strait, crucial for the travel industry and food supplies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Her hiring emphasizes how important acquiring power, land, and buildings for AI data centers have become, and how crucial financing is now.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

Pelvic floor muscles are a sling-like layer of muscles spanning the bottom of the pelvis, crucial for supporting the bladder, bowel, and uterus.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

Like Fleeming Jenkin, Galton quickly realized that his cousin had got the principle right, but not the mechanism: the nature of inheritance was crucial to the understanding of Darwin's theory.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee