central idea
Example Sentences
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Her central idea is simple, but radical: your home is not a reflection of your worth.
From Salon • May 5, 2026
“His central idea was that to live is to act, transforming oneself and the world around,” Ms. Riskin writes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
The pair spent the next several hours honing the central idea and spitballing about plot and character development.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025
That painful history can be alchemized into thrilling entertainment is both the central idea and the takeaway experience of “Jelly’s Last Jam,” the jaw-dropping Encores! revival that opened on Wednesday at City Center.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2024
His empire perished at his death, but its central idea survived—that of the municipal freedom of the Greek polis within the framework of an imperial system.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
