crucial
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His final pitch was a crucial one, inducing an inning-ending double play with runners on the corners to hold the game at 1-0.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026
The deal, which will bolster SpaceX's finances ahead of its IPO on June 12, covers a computing infrastructure of approximately 110,000 Nvidia GPUs -- the crucial hardware needed to power Google's Gemini AI models.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
"Our findings emphasize that understanding the coastal landscape as a whole is crucial when predicting how mangroves might respond to climate change, and how we can protect them."
From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026
It probably still is, but this rocket just lost a crucial booster stage.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
And, naturally, the crucial topics for the new science corresponded neatly with the professional preoccupations of seventeenth-century mathematicians: astronomy/astrology, navigation, cartography, surveying, architecture, ballistics and hydraulics.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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