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essence

[es-uhns] / ˈɛs əns /




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“Diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Their original press release mentioned building a new air defence systems that would be "in essence, a British Iron Dome", referencing Israel's elaborate air defence system.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Expanding on his pessimism around the AI trade, Klement told MarketWatch that, in essence, the market put itself into a bit of a capex pickle.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

I have no doubt AI music will keep improving, at least to a point, but I predict few people who actually love music are going to listen that way because it has lost its essence.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

The picture that began to congeal in his mind was the essence of injustice: battle-worn veterans of the war for independence being cheated out of their just rewards by mere moneymen.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

"One of the essences of this game is being able to figure out different ways of using each of these echoes," he says.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2024

Further, although chemically derived vanilla essences are available cheaply, they do not match the flavor of natural vanilla extract, and the demand for the latter continues to remain high.

From Science Daily ● May 16, 2024

The exhibition also includes tools for cutting and pressing the plants and extracting their essential essences.

From Reuters ● May 30, 2023

In addition, there’s something of a disconnect between the younger and older Tom’s personalities; their essences don’t fully align.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2022

Her mother gathered the flowers of particular climbing vines and sapped them of their essences and combined them with honey that she pulled from the wild hives in the tallest trees.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill


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