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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

Example Sentences

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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

These substances, during the circulation of the blood, are deposited in the bones, and form "phosphate of lime," the principal element in the bone.

From Popular Books on Natural Science For Practical Use in Every Household, for Readers of All Classes by Bernstein, Aaron David