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element

Definition for element

noun as in essential feature

noun as in place where one feels comfortable

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There’s also a psychological element where the consumer is managing a complex set of uncertainties.”

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Both novel and film would be set in Cape Cod, Mass., and there would be a mysterious woman named Wren, which is where the supernatural element would come in.

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Now, as civil rights are being beaten back to … backwardness by small-minded politicians, there’s a timely element to this perfectly decent, good-hearted, unsurprisingly sentimental miniseries.

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"There's an element of grace and humility associated with the winners," says Thanos Marizis, a Greek masters student, as he sits with friends in the university library.

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Rare earths are a group of 17 chemically similar elements that are crucial to the manufacture of many high-tech products.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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