primary element

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Networks of microtubules grow like tree roots into branching systems that form a primary element of the cytoskeleton that gives cells their shape and enables them to divide.

From Science Daily • Jan. 25, 2024

In Izzard’s mind, there was always going to be a stage version as a companion piece — though she had envisioned the audiobook as the primary element.

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2022

Its primary element is a low, semicircular stone wall with 19 names and a series of dates inscribed on it at regular intervals.

From Salon • Jul. 4, 2021

In a Katz painting, style—the way it’s painted—is the primary element.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2018

The remaining department is the executive or administrative, and in all forms of government the primary element of administration is force, but even in this department conscience and intelligence are indispensable to its direction.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Harper, Ida Husted