essential
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La Cruz Roja Colombiana is looking to provide essential medical care, help fix the failing telecommunications networks, give access to potable water, connect families and aid in rescue missions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Lumentum’s stock has been a major gainer over the past 12 months, as networking components like transceivers and lasers have proven essential to data-center buildouts — such that they’re now in short supply.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
As Ms. Kaushal writes, population projections indicate that immigration “will be essential to keep the U.S. population from falling” in the coming decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Part of the fossil – precisely the portion that preserved essential information about its provenance – was accidentally lost for more than two decades.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
It is essential to stress that this last belief found no support in the fifteenth century.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Since our move coincided with Amazon’s Prime Day sale, I timed a few purchases accordingly and saved a combined $21.50 on the router and some household essentials.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
The government has instituted a heavily subsidized exchange rate for up to $3.5 billion of imports such as wheat, medicine and baby formula, giving priority to essentials over other uses of scarce dollars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Many still made it through, planning their crossings with waterproof bags for phones, cash and other essentials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
His bag contained "pretty much all my clothes, toiletries and many essentials which I can't necessarily afford to just go and replace," he explained.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
It takes cognitive toil and literary dexterity to pare an argument to its essentials, narrate it in an orderly sequence, and illustrate it with analogies that are both familiar and accurate.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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