chief ingredient
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It's named for the chief ingredient that makes it unique: artemisia absinthium, which you might know as wormwood.
From Salon • Mar. 11, 2023
The chief ingredient in film, gelatin that is derived from collagen, is what helps give human skin its sheen and elasticity.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2021
He added, reflexively, “The best thing about pea is that it’s not soy”—Impossible’s chief ingredient.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 23, 2019
Banality is the chief ingredient in her work, and she uses it like an all-purpose seasoning that, paradoxically, subtracts flavor.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2015
But, then, he had trusted to Leon’s leadership; and the latter’s boasted knowledge of the woods proved, as Coombsie had suspected, to consist of bluff as a chief ingredient!
From A Scout of To-day by Hornibrook, Isabel