essential to
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They said it was essential to understand what happened and identify lessons that could be learned.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Chatterjee believes that the company’s Agentforce platform, which allows clients to build autonomous agents, is still essential to the company’s growth story.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Current co-host, former dancer and onetime judge Julianne Hough says all these elements culminated in a “perfect storm,” but it’s also the longtime Los Angeles-based production that’s essential to the show’s comeback.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
A bipartisan amendment introduced in June to the National Defense Authorization Act would extend the familiar principle of fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory, or Frand, licensing—long applied to technologies essential to industry standards—to foreign-owned critical ISAs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Furthermore, I displayed, or usually displayed, all those traits deemed essential to job readiness: punctuality, cleanliness, cheerfulness, obedience.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
