essence
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"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
In essence, Villa are bringing in valuable experience but how much Goretzka has left to give on the field remains to be seen.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
It had a cheap fragrance, which I tried to fool myself would cover the essence of crab.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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
The exhibition also includes tools for cutting and pressing the plants and extracting their essential essences.
From Reuters ● May 30, 2023
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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