Etymology
Origin of essentiality
Example Sentences
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This "thought experiment" enabled them to calculate the "keystoneness" or the relative essentiality of each species in each community.
From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2023
The actor is the most famous name in this "Bad News Bears"- style comedy from Bobby Farrelly, who directed him in 1996's "Kingpin," which lends an essentiality to his promotional efforts.
From Salon • Mar. 1, 2023
In that brimmed another truth Rich Beem has carried through the 20 years that followed the one day: the essentiality of humor.
From Washington Post • May 19, 2022
Critics say the essentiality test gives courts broad authority over theological matters where they have little expertise and where clergy would be more appropriate arbiters of faith.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2022
His is the nature "consisting in infinite attributes, of which each expresses eternal and infinite essentiality."
From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton
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