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principal element

NOUN

basis

Synonyms

STRONGEST

assumption base essential evidence explanation footing fundamental justification premise principle proof reason security support theory

STRONG

antecedent authority axiom backbone background backing bedrock cause center core crux data dictum essence heart infrastructure keynote keystone law nexus nucleus postulate presumption presupposition root rudiment sanction source substratum theorem warrant

WEAK

chief ingredient hard fact underpinning

Antonyms

STRONGEST

auxiliary fact reality trivia

STRONG

effect end exterior exteriority outside periphery result surface

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Madison did say that it is a principal element of our jurisprudence that no one should be a judge in his own cause, in his own case, right?

From Slate • May 23, 2024

“The main organization, I think, is the Indochina Resource Center,” he told a Congressional hearing in 1976, “and I really think that another principal element would be the multifaceted activities of Mr. Don Luce.”

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2022

A principal element of the plan was to put up an orbiting space station to keep people in space but protect them from the hostile, cold vacuum of the environment.

From US News • Jan. 28, 2016

As Irving's outrageous story collapsed in on itself, one principal element in the puzzle loomed ever larger and more baffling: Where had the material he spun into his summa of non-books come from.

From Time Magazine Archive

But do not suggest that this special knowledge is the principal element of your desirability.

From Certain Success by Hawkins, Norval A.

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