essential
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"For Switzerland, competitive framework conditions are particularly crucial for the future. It is essential that regulation remains targeted and internationally coordinated so that both stability and competitiveness are strengthened," it said.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
Broadcom has been a beneficiary of investors’ enthusiasm for custom AI chips, but it also leads the market for chipsets that are essential for scale-up and scale-out networking in AI data centers.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026
This was an era of moviegoing when premieres were essential to a movie’s box office success, drawing substantial marketing opportunities.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
For example, the Colored People’s Convention that met in 1865 in Charleston, South Carolina, argued that equal voting rights were “inherent and essential to every republican form of government.”
From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026
It was finally unmistakable: infinity and zero are inseparable and are essential to mathematics.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing essential
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Academic Vocabulary Toolkit 1, Words 41-50
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