essentials
Example Sentences
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While TJ acknowledges her family is fortunate enough to afford it, she says the sticker shock from inflation is real — and it’s changing how she shops for everyday essentials.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
She had to go back to her native village in the country's north to bring back rice and other essentials to feed her family.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
An improvement in the finances of working people at the lower end of the economic scale might help explain why their spending on both essentials and discretionary items has accelerated recently, some economists said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
She went on to say essentials such as housing, energy and transport were too expensive and there was a need "to make them more affordable through public control".
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
They had their own hootch at the edge of the perimeter, fortified with sandbags and a metal fence, and except for the bare essentials they avoided contact with the medical detachment.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
