essential
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Boots, sun cream, toothbrush: players on World Cup duty have plenty of essential items to remember.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
For now, the ITF and the DAD-DER were providing the stranded sailors with drinking water and essential supplies, Polat explained.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
The essential thing to understand about Mr. Putin, she begins, is that he isn’t a Marxist or a communist or even a defender of Leninism or Stalinism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Still, “Time and Water” collapses the notion that we are somehow separate from these ancient, essential formations: an encouraging hello to the future from inside a sobering goodbye.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
Knowing that his job was essential to his self-respect, she did everything she could to help him keep it.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
Vocabulary lists containing essential
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Academic Vocabulary Toolkit 1, Words 41-50
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