essential to
Example Sentences
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Moonshot eschews titles and hierarchy, a relatively unusual practice at a Chinese company and one Yang sees as essential to get rid of red tape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Data centres have been essential to the digital economy since the arrival of the internet.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Lubricants rarely attract much attention, but they are essential to modern machinery.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
“Keeping production infrastructure active and investing in California’s capacity to support film and television is essential to our long-term competitiveness,” California Film Commission Executive Director Colleen Bell said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
The third R of the physiology of genes is a word that lies outside common human vocabulary, but is essential to the survival of our species: recombination—the ability to generate new combinations of genes.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
