quintessentially
Americanadverb
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But there’s a less-traveled route that feels just as quintessentially SoCal: California 33 to Hudson Ranch Road, passing through Ojai, Maricopa, New Cuyama and Frazier Park.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
He considers his disinterest in gumshoes working on their own a quintessentially Japanese perspective.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Oversized stars stretched across stone-washed denim might be quintessentially American, but it was bold and brash in a footballing sense and the squad feared they would be ridiculed.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
"The atmosphere, the air that you breathe here, is different -- there is something magic about it," he added, comparing the annual competition to the quintessentially British tennis championships at Wimbledon.
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
Seaborg’s early life told the same quintessentially American story of immigration and assimilation as Ernest Lawrence’s, although his upbringing was rather more insular and culturally constrained than that in the Lawrences’ educated household.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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