crucial
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deciding, necessary, touchy, pressing, compelling, urgent, vital, pivotal, central, imperative, decisive, essential, momentous, acute, clamorous, desperate, dire, insistent, searching, showdownExamples from the Web for crucial
Contemporary Examples of crucial
All it needs is one more “pipe” to select and transmit the crucial information.
Some pilots consider the infrared marker to be crucial to the close air-support mission to support ground troops.
And some of the most compelling statements came from a powerful, crucial set of equality allies: corporations.
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From the looks of it, mistletoe is a keystone species and plays a crucial role in that forest ecosystem.
Given that crucial importance, The Macallan is famously hands-on when it comes to its wooden barrels.
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Historical Examples of crucial
Orley slapped his card down; it was a crucial card, the jack.
Goodbye, Dead Man!Tom W. Harris
But at any rate, no one will deny that interest is the crucial matter.
A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume IIMrs. Humphry Ward
What names will afford the most crucial test of natural fitness?
CratylusPlato
Mrs. Winthrop helped him by her entrance at this crucial point.
David DunneBelle Kanaris Maniates
The following and last experiment that I tried on this occasion was the most crucial.
TelepathyW. W. Baggally