critical
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A second report, in 2024, related to electrical safety in critical patient care areas.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Born in Minnesota, Bill Niman found himself in Bolinas in 1969, where he befriended lefty intellectuals who were critical of factory farming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Today, Gemini lags the competition in critical areas like coding.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Caudle said this year, “those critical components that we weren’t expecting to repair are now on the table, so the work package grows.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Ursus didn’t bother to reply, but took Kepler’s praise out of context and published it as a kind of endorsement of some of his own work—which, as it happens, was critical of Tycho.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Vocabulary lists containing critical
The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 1
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