essence
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Their original press release mentioned building a new air defence systems that would be "in essence, a British Iron Dome", referencing Israel's elaborate air defence system.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
In essence, it is this: How specific does a lawsuit have to be before a fiduciary’s documented, reasoned judgment gets treated as a legal liability instead of prudent diversification?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
I have no doubt AI music will keep improving, at least to a point, but I predict few people who actually love music are going to listen that way because it has lost its essence.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
In essence, the ratio has formed a local minimum on its chart and is now trending upward.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Thyon Nero wasn’t the only one exhausting himself—though he was the only one siphoning off his own vital essence to do it.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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
Her mother gathered the flowers of particular climbing vines and sapped them of their essences and combined them with honey that she pulled from the wild hives in the tallest trees.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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