essentials
Example Sentences
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A barber is offering free back-to-school haircuts, stationery and school essentials to help families facing rising costs.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
To Bangley, the four essentials of life are “power, food, water and weapons.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
But he also highlighted a divide between spending on essentials and spending on big-ticket items.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
Shares are down about 2.5% over the past year, reflecting rising costs for essentials such as memory chips that are affecting the broader entertainment and gaming industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
It takes cognitive toil and literary dexterity to pare an argument to its essentials, narrate it in an orderly sequence, and illustrate it with analogies that are both familiar and accurate.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
