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It was the deciding factor.
Definition
something that affects a result or outcome
- Well, if you consider the determining factor, which is, of course, economic...4.10 — Part 4 Chapter 10 (49% in)
- Pressure is a powerful factor.2.2 — Part 2 Chapter 2 (34% in)
- The senseless is the major factor in our lives.2.12 — Part 2 Chapter 12 (42% in)
There are no more uses of "factor" flagged with this meaning in The Fountainhead.
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exact meaning not specified
- It just so happened that I chose the field that interests you—the field of art—because I thought that it focused the decisive factors in the task we had to accomplish.4.7 — Part 4 Chapter 7 (55% in)
- The discipline of an immortal tradition has served here as a cohesive factor in evolving a structure whose beauty can reach, simply and lucidly, the heart of every man in the street.1.4 — Part 1 Chapter 4 (2% in)
- Since we are merely the creatures of our chemical metabolism and of the economic factors of our background, there's not a damn thing we can do about anything whatever.4.7 — Part 4 Chapter 7 (58% in)
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