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all-important element
noun as in be-all and end-all
Example Sentences
But the hearings also employ the all-important element of unpredictability, keeping its most quotable segments under wraps until broadcast.
The conviction “was premised solely on how his posts would be understood by a reasonable person” and such a standard “reduces culpability on the all-important element of the crime to negligence,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority.
Faith is an all-important element and doctrine with each.
The overshadowing fact—a fact which I find that many naval men have not yet sufficiently grasped—is that time was the all-important element.
It requires no prolonged acquaintance with the earth’s crust to impress upon the mind that one all-important element is omitted, and indeed can hardly be allowed for from want of sufficiently precise data, but the neglect of which must needs seriously impair the value of all numerical calculations made without it.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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