essential
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Water, essential to life, can destroy everything in its path.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Thames Water said: "While there is enough water for essential use, we need to reduce non-essential outdoor demand to keep taps flowing."
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
She assigns priority levels—critical, important and optional—to indicate what information is essential.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
She cited a federal statute authorizing the U.S. service academies to make “minimum essential adjustments” to their standards “because of physiological differences between male and female individuals.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Wall Street’s essential function was to allocate capital: to decide who should get it and who should not.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
He pledged to bring “life’s essentials under state control” and said his first policy would be to end homeless people sleeping on streets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
She went on to say essentials such as housing, energy and transport were too expensive and there was a need "to make them more affordable through public control".
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Economists led by Shruti Mishra divided out consumption by household income, but importantly, stripped out the essentials of housing, utilities and healthcare.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
The islands' roughly 200,000 inhabitants have queued at petrol stations in recent days and thronged hardware stores to buy plywood and supermarkets for food, bottled water and other essentials.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
The few days of lead time were just enough to scope out the bare essentials of her new life: the location of the nearest AME church, mealtimes at the Lucy home, and transportation to work.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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