essential to

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The nurse practitioner who prescribed Robinson the medication didn’t warn her that resistance training is essential to maintaining muscle mass, Robinson said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

Breeders' rights and patents are granted based on physical descriptions, not DNA analysis, but it's essential to compare the new plants with similar products in order to establish if they qualify for protection.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

Most vivid are the stories of her family singing together so frequently that the sound became as essential to the Pacific Ocean backdrop as palm trees.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

If the constants governing physics shifted by only a few percent, liquids essential to biology could become dramatically thicker or thinner.

From Science Daily • May 8, 2026

Nothing had ever felt so essential to me.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates