essential
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Rather than disappearing from the story, the cosmological constant suddenly became essential again because it could account for this accelerating expansion.
From Science Daily • Jun. 19, 2026
Carbon removal is like that for the climate—it’s essential, it’s invisible, it’s not especially glamorous, but these infrastructure projects are what make society tick over the long haul.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026
“Large-scale transmission is essential to meeting the West’s growing energy needs and strengthening reliability across the grid,” said Elliot Mainzer, CAISO’s president and chief executive, in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2026
Prices for urea, the most essential fertilizer for farmers worldwide, returned to near prewar levels even before the U.S. and Iran announced their interim peace accord this week.
From Barron's • Jun. 18, 2026
The process of abstraction it teaches is an essential precondition for the new science.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing essential
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Academic Vocabulary Toolkit 1, Words 41-50
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