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cornerstone
noun as in vital element
Strong matches
Weak matches
Example Sentences
The bar has been a cornerstone of American culture from the very beginning.
A cornerstone of American elections has been the peaceful transition of power, but as research from the Transition Integrity Project and others underscores, there are multiple ways to contest an election.
Many of the cornerstones of the TV advertising calendar have been canceled or disrupted, and there’s nothing to fill the gap.
GM is already building a nearly 3-million-square-foot factory that will mass produce Ultium battery cells and packs, the cornerstone of the company’s strategy to bring those electric vehicles to market in the next three years.
Cook has turned the app store into the cornerstone of a services division that he set out to expand four years ago.
Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy, summed up the Southern attitude in his 1861 Cornerstone Speech.
The cornerstone of our democracy is that justice is to be colorblind in its administration.
Giants are the cornerstone of the myths, legends, and traditions of almost every culture on Earth.
Back then, property was understood by universal consensus as a foundational cornerstone of human liberty and a life worth living.
The character-building cornerstone of American life has lately come under fire for ills ranging from racism to concussions.
To lose our privileges would be to lose the very cornerstone of our liberty.
The Saratoga trunk is not the best cornerstone for the home: so much we may take for granted.
They went as a team and gave me about as much chance to escape as if I'd been a horned toad sealed in a cornerstone.
Pizarro was now very busy in developing the new country he had conquered, and in laying the cornerstone of a nation.
Confidence—a justified confidence—is therefore the cornerstone of morale.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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