essential
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The results confirmed that acetylcholine plays an essential role in helping the brain adapt when circumstances change.
From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026
More recently, China has shown that it, too, wields potent leverage over other countries—including the U.S.—through its stranglehold on critical minerals essential for manufacturing everything from semiconductors to jet engines.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
"To secure the future of the automotive industry in Saxony and in Germany, it is essential not to ignore this reality," he told AFP.
From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026
Neso's job is to make sure supply meets the UK's essential energy demands every day of the week.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
Nevertheless, his idealized parabolic trajectory in a vacuum was an essential precondition for the much more sophisticated analysis by Robins and Euler of actual trajectories.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing essential
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Academic Vocabulary Toolkit 1, Words 41-50
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