essence
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The move, in essence, accomplishes the goal originally set out by the administration’s $100,000 levy on H-1B visas for foreign professionals, which caused a panic in Silicon Valley last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Magic is a five-letter word that does so much heavy lifting when it comes to describing the essence of what makes something special.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
In essence, the neighboring sale upped the ante as far as Behar’s listing was concerned—and also encouraged her agents to start thinking about other ways they could prove the home’s potential to prospective buyers.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
The essence of this duo was the outré interplay between the Prince and the Putz, the Leading Man and the Monkey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
I saw that the question with which I had wrestled in that Chapter 14 was in essence the question Yali had asked me in 1972, merely transferred to a different part of the world.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
"One of the essences of this game is being able to figure out different ways of using each of these echoes," he says.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2024
Further, although chemically derived vanilla essences are available cheaply, they do not match the flavor of natural vanilla extract, and the demand for the latter continues to remain high.
From Science Daily ● May 16, 2024
The exhibition also includes tools for cutting and pressing the plants and extracting their essential essences.
From Reuters ● May 30, 2023
Inside Aftel's atelier and museum, one is immediately engulfed by the artist's "scent organ," comprised of hundreds of bottles in rows filled with essences.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2022
Her mother gathered the flowers of particular climbing vines and sapped them of their essences and combined them with honey that she pulled from the wild hives in the tallest trees.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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