essence
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The bigger half is that ineffable star-stuff: the essence, the soul.
From Slate • Apr. 23, 2026
"As a queer artist, a drag performer, that feels very much in hand with what the essence of Puck is."
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026
The installation puts people inside that spectral array of color to capture the essence of those sunrises and sunsets.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
“Seems to me like a total own-goal,” says Ms. Worsley, once again boiling the past down to its essence, without belaboring the ironies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
Yet that approach would be doomed from the outset, because the essence of the problem is to develop a unified synthesis.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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