essence
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In essence, had the prize always been open to players from all countries, each South American World Cup-winning side between 1958 and 1994 would have supplied the winner.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
"Combined with its hidden, subterranean, and mysterious lifestyle on the forest floor, our team unanimously agreed that naming it Thismia daemona perfectly captured its enigmatic and devil-like essence," Dr. Chantanaorrapint said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
“It is, for us, the very essence of Jewish ethical duty.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Its essence was its array of cantilevered terraces, set at right angles to one another and projecting deep out into space.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
“My assessment,” the doctor writes, “is that he will be able to recover in a short time, while retaining the extreme excitability that must form the essence of his character.”
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
“We as humans are very much interested in each others essences, thoughts and feelings,” he said in an email.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025
This is a fundamental error: Ideologies are not platonic essences, existing unchanged beyond time and space.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2025
"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
For Plato, the sublunary world was a distorted projection of the world of essences.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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