key

Example Sentences

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The study, published in Nature, focused on the amygdala, a key region involved in processing fear.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

“Of course I like to show the great future, the big dream. But we have to show the actual data, the actual result. That is the key for my company.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Its key patron, China, gets less than 2 millions barrels a day from Tehran—and 9 million from other Gulf countries currently shut in.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

He told Europe's nuclear summit that "nuclear power is key to reconciling both independence, and thus energy sovereignty, with decarbonisation, and thus carbon neutrality".

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Seemed to me if they filled in the privies, locked up the school, and threw the key down the well, they could save some real money and do us all a service.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck