essential element
Example Sentences
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Petroleum is an essential element in modern industry, whether used as a fuel, a lubricant or an ingredient in plastics and chemicals.
From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026
It includes Sontag’s “Notes on ‘Camp,’” among whose 58 numbered observations is: “In naïve, or pure, Camp, the essential element is seriousness, a seriousness that fails.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
If we give up on the courts, we’re going to take away a really essential element of our ability to be Americans.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2025
That essential element of his identity is presented as merely neutral fact, rather than the alienating circumstance it no doubt was.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2024
This was a reminder that an essential element of surveillance was disappearing into the background.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
