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vitally important

ADJECTIVE
life-and-death
Synonyms
WEAK
all-important consequential critical crucial determining earth-shaking earth-shattering essential imperative important indispensable life-or-death meaningful of vital importance paramount pivotal serious significant urgent vital

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Now that the vitally important strategic chokepoint has been blocked once, the key players in the region have witnessed its closure once and now know it can happen again.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 21, 2026

“Public transparency is vitally important in these cases — not just for the people of Hennepin County and Minnesota, but for the public nationwide,” Moriarty wrote in one of the letters.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026

A host of other vitally important chemicals, gases and other products normally enter international supply chains via the Hormuz Strait.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

On this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode of Amicus, co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discussed both his order and why it is vitally important for judges to do what he did.

From Slate • Feb. 28, 2026

First, no cereal crops were domesticated in New Guinea, whereas several vitally important ones were domesticated in the Fertile Crescent, Sahel, and China.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond