instrumental
Example Sentences
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After meeting as teenagers, he and Seals moved to California together in the late ’50s to pursue music and soon joined the Champs, who’d just topped the Hot 100 with the mostly instrumental hit “Tequila.”
From Los Angeles Times
A Google insider told me Brittin shaped the response: "He swiftly apologised and was instrumental in getting it sorted".
From BBC
This month, the National Rally’s backing could prove instrumental again to help him win municipal elections in his hometown of Nice.
Mizelle said Slater and her team were instrumental in editing the draft after Woodward presented it, “including adding/deleting specific substantive terms.”
In 2021, the instrumental psychedelic band from San Diego recorded a stunning live album and video called “Live in the Mojave Desert Vol. 1.”
From Los Angeles Times
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