essence
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A spokesperson said: "In essence, we are strongly supportive of the goals of the scheme and of the underpinning principles of better bus travel. Our concern is around the mechanism proposed to achieve this."
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
They each contacted Boyagoda midway through to say, in essence, “You nailed it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
“It is, for us, the very essence of Jewish ethical duty.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
In fact, the essence of noise, "white noise," is basically every pitch at once, so that no particular pitch is heard.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
“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
It’s a matrix light, a recombinant light that disintegrates hard lines and planes, rearranging objects to their essences.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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