crucial
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This highlights how crucial these protective structures are for enduring extreme environments.
From Science Daily • Apr. 12, 2026
It is crucial that you speak with a real person who can support you right now.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
Andy Pages went three for three with four RBIs and had a go-ahead two-run double and a two-run home run to provide crucial insurance that kept his club in the game.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026
By moving the signal closer to the processor, the CPO approach improves power efficiency, increases bandwidth and lowers latency — all crucial to running powerful AI workloads.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 11, 2026
De Maricourt and della Porta were crucial sources for Gilbert: we can tell that he repeated their experiments with care, which is how he knew that della Porta was copying from a half-understood source.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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