quintessential

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Attending a joust is one of the quintessential renaissance festival experiences.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

“The spoken word is perhaps the quintessential form of protected speech,” Justice Neil Gorsuch writes for the majority in Chiles v.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

The tablescape is also a quintessential expression of Padma, Payawal’s art practice, which focuses on nourishing conversations and community through food, ceramic and textile craft collaborations.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

But as Burton’s team writes in their clemency petition to Ivey, Burton’s case is an extreme outlier, “a quintessential case for the exercise of executive clemency.”

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026

The July 6 memo was written in a style that her colleagues think of as quintessential Terryl: deeply passionate but somehow dispassionate enough, and just to the point.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel