all-important element
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But the hearings also employ the all-important element of unpredictability, keeping its most quotable segments under wraps until broadcast.
From Salon • Jun. 15, 2022
Carbon is a kind of natural backbone: the all-important element that anchors the molecules of everything from crude oil to DNA.
From Time Magazine Archive
Defensively, U.S. bases provide the all-important element of dispersal.
From Time Magazine Archive
The girl had caught something of the spirit of it all, but she had neglected to grasp the all-important element of the relations between men, without which laws, rules, and customs become farcical and ridiculous.
From 'Firebrand' Trevison by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)
She might at least have made of Gilfoyle that all-important element of the Republic, a respectable, amiable, ordinary man, perhaps the father of children who would be of value, even of glory, to the world.
From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert
