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  • Then, in the midst of this idyll, came the first of two pivotal setbacks.  (source)
  • Once uncovered again, she asked the pivotal question.  (source)
    pivotal = very important and influencing how things develop
  • I wave back and then close my eyes to take stock of my situation, because jumping off a cliff seems like a pivotal moment where a little stock-taking should be done.  (source)
    pivotal = very important
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  • "You guys," Mae said, knowing she had to make this statement very clear, knowing this was a pivotal moment, for their own health and the overall health data—gathering system the Circle was trying to make possible.  (source)
    pivotal = very important
  • In the three months following Rogers's story, Jet, Ebony, Smithsonian, and various newspapers published articles about Henrietta, "one of the pivotal figures in the crusade against cancer."  (source)
    pivotal = very important and influencing how things developed
  • These two actions are of pivotal importance.†  (source)
    pivotal = very important
  • I intuitively knew — and sensed he did, too — that tomorrow would be pivotal.†  (source)
  • How did it make him feel to deliver all those copies of The Gravesend News-Letter, wherein Mr. Morrison's former role was described as "not only pivotal but principal"—and Owen Meany was showered with the kind of praise Mr. Morrison might have imagined for himself?†  (source)
  • This was the pivotal moment in the entire play, and it sets the tone for everything else that happens afterward.†  (source)
  • There was no pivotal moment of creative difference, no storming or flouncing out.†  (source)
  • Long ago, he had played the pivotal role in Mal'akh's mortal life path.†  (source)
  • The other pictograms were arranged around this pivotal area.†  (source)
  • This distinction between something and nothing-this pivotal separation between being and nonbeing-is quite fundamental and underlies many Creation myths.†  (source)
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