central idea
Example Sentences
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“His central idea was that to live is to act, transforming oneself and the world around,” Ms. Riskin writes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
The central idea was the same: to have more control over their creations.
From BBC • Oct. 26, 2025
The pair spent the next several hours honing the central idea and spitballing about plot and character development.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025
The new kind of fair mobility is a central idea of degrowth.
From Salon • May 3, 2024
The opponents said that as a matter of fact, the religion of the reformers was a religion of the head, and that its central idea was baptism.
From The Story of a Life by Ellis, J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge)
