All 13 Uses of
critical
in
Unbroken by Hillenbrand
- The plane was so clumsy that it was difficult to fly in the tight formations that were critical to fending off attack.
p. 60..1critical = important
- One by one, they landed, all critically low on fuel, one with a dead engine.
p. 76..1critically = seriously or dangerously
- He knew that it had been cannibalized, and he hoped that critical parts weren't missing.
p. 115..8critical = important
- It was a critical piece of information; because a dead engine's propeller continues turning in the wind, it can look just like a running engine.
p. 117..9
- The critical question regarded provisions.
p. 127..1
- Louie soon learned a critical rule of conversation: Never use a guard's real name.
p. 204..1
- In creating the dictionary, Harris may have had more in mind than translating stolen documents; if he ever escaped from Ofuna, the Japanese translations of words like "compass," "seacoast," and "ashore" might be critical to know.
p. 205..9
- In July, the scuttlebutt in camp was that the Americans were attacking the critical island of Saipan, in the Mariana Islands, south of mainland Japan.
p. 222..6
- The critical moment came when inspection was called.
p. 243..5critical = dangerous or important
- Naoetsu was a factory village that generated products critical to the war effort, and all of its young workers had gone to war.
p. 280..2critical = important
- In critical ways, she was engaged to a stranger.
p. 341..8
- Having left USC a few credits short, he had no college degree, a critical asset in a job market glutted with veterans and former war production workers.
p. 349..9 *critical = importanteditor's notes: In this context, an asset is something of value.
- With communism wicking across the Far East, America's leaders began to see a future alliance with Japan as critical to national security.
p. 390..8critical = important
Definition:
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(critical as in: a critical problem) important, serious, or dangerous