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Recent Examples of essentiality The growing importance of storage, indeed its essentiality, is covered in a major article — more of a white paper, really -- authored by three energy attorneys at the world’s largest law firm, Dentons: Clinton Vince, Jennifer Morrisey and Andrew Mina. Llewellyn King, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025 With Jim Crow, an imperfect church, economic despair, and the Klan looming, the film underlines again and again the essentiality of love—not as an antidote, but as an alternative, an entirely separate mode of experiencing the world. Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 22 Apr. 2025 Many people across the healthcare ecosystem acknowledge the power and essentiality of trust to most things in healthcare, including engagement and adherence to health advice. Lisa Fitzpatrick, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024 Many people across the healthcare ecosystem acknowledge the power and essentiality of trust to most things in healthcare, including engagement and adherence to health advice. Lisa Fitzpatrick, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024 Paul Johnson’s sweeping yet granular historical account of modernity’s emergence reinforces the role and essentiality of the individual, for good and for evil. Jack Butler, National Review, 3 Sep. 2023 Family’s essence of essentiality. Denis Villeneuve, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Dec. 2021 Password managers, despite their essentiality to internet life, are unremarkable. Steven Aquino, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023 For all that representation of his genre exploration, the bulk of the two hours goes, not unreasonably, to stars treating his singer-songwriter essentiality in a singer-songwriter fashion. Chris Willman, Variety, 21 Dec. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for essentiality
Noun
  • Overall, the performances from these past two days captured the essence of breaking about as well as possible given the context.
    Jason Pu, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • In essence, the proposals involve Kyiv surrendering territory in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, in exchange for a ceasefire, an idea the Ukrainian leadership has firmly ruled out.
    Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The suite’s interiors reflect the nature on the doorstep, with a soothing color palette of earthy browns, soft taupes and warm greens.
    Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Serena and Leah comfort her and talk about their own experiences with death and the nonlinear nature of grief.
    Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025

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“Essentiality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/essentiality. Accessed 27 Aug. 2025.

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