primary element
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Networks of microtubules grow like tree roots into branching systems that form a primary element of the cytoskeleton that gives cells their shape and enables them to divide.
From Science Daily • Jan. 25, 2024
In Izzard’s mind, there was always going to be a stage version as a companion piece — though she had envisioned the audiobook as the primary element.
From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2022
Its primary element is a low, semicircular stone wall with 19 names and a series of dates inscribed on it at regular intervals.
From Salon • Jul. 4, 2021
In a Katz painting, style—the way it’s painted—is the primary element.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2018
At least he would entertain no theory of conduct which did not allow its due weight to this primary element of incertitude or negation, in the conditions of man's life.
From Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1 by Pater, Walter
