chief ingredient
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It's named for the chief ingredient that makes it unique: artemisia absinthium, which you might know as wormwood.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2023
The chief ingredient in film, gelatin that is derived from collagen, is what helps give human skin its sheen and elasticity.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2021
He added, reflexively, “The best thing about pea is that it’s not soy”—Impossible’s chief ingredient.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 23, 2019
Banality is the chief ingredient in her work, and she uses it like an all-purpose seasoning that, paradoxically, subtracts flavor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2015
Hence, too, music was one chief ingredient of the Pythagorean philosophy, as well as a necessary element of the worship of Apollo, as best expressing the harmony on which both were founded.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
