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  • The essence of friendship is trust, even more than shared interests.
    essence = most important quality
  • She described the essence of chaos theory as "sensitive dependence on initial conditions."
    essence = defining quality
  • In essence, you are standing in the middle of an incredibly powerful genetics factory.  (source)
    essence = basically or fundamentally
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  • Then, her hand trembling, she shook Millicent Bulstrode's hair out of its bottle into the first glass. The potion hissed loudly like a boiling kettle and frothed madly. A second later, it had turned a sick sort of yellow. "Urgh — essence of Millicent Bulstrode," said Ron, eyeing it with loathing.  (source)
    essence = an extract that concentrates important qualities
  • Time is of the essence, as I'm sure you're aware.†  (source)
    of the essence = very important
  • She remembered that night, long ago, when she had seen Ogbu-agali-odu, one of those evil essences loosed upon the world by the potent "medicines" which the tribe had made in the distant past against its enemies but had now forgotten how to control.†  (source)
  • Roman, Andrew, and I stay up well past midnight, trying to make sense of McCandless's life and death, yet his essence remains slippery, vague, elusive.  (source)
    essence = most defining qualities
  • Time is of the essence in an emergency, don't you think?†  (source)
    of the essence = very important
  • At peace, they could act like gods, not ghosts, their descent lines providing them with paper suits and dresses, spirit money, paper houses, paper automobiles, chicken, meat, and rice into eternity— essences delivered up in smoke and flames, steam and incense rising from each rice bowl.†  (source)
  • Well, that's the very essence of it, isn't it?  (source)
    essence = defining quality
  • Time is of the essence.†  (source)
    of the essence = very important
  • It's a matrix light, a recombinant light that disintegrates hard lines and planes, rearranging objects to their essences.†  (source)
  • Yet, in essence, these traitors to the human race can also be seen as enemies from outside human civilization.  (source)
    essence = basic terms explaining the most important point
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