All 13 Uses
crucial
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The Circle
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- Now she was part of the forty most crucial minds at the company—the Gang of 40—privy to its most secret plans and data.†
p. 14.8 *crucial = very important
- Oh, and it's crucial that all company devices are password protected, so I gave you one.†
p. 44.3
- Mae's mother laughed, and most crucially, Mae's father laughed.†
p. 77.8
- But we missed you at the Old West party last Thursday night, which was a pretty crucial team-building event, centered around a product we're all very proud of.†
p. 177.3crucial = very important
- And a crucial member of the community.†
p. 181.8
- I think it's a crucial new step for the Circle and will mean a great deal to our overall awesomeness.†
p. 212.8
- "Huh," he said, and his eyes briefly left their focus on her, as if they were needed somewhere else, somewhere deep in his mind, for a brief but crucial calculation.†
p. 219.9
- You've been chosen because your opinions are crucial to us, and to our clients.†
p. 230.1
- Leveraging your credibility to spur action—this is crucial, okay?†
p. 250.2
- Because she no longer needed him, because she was now a crucial and measurable driver of world commerce, and because she had two men at the Circle to choose from—one of them a volcanic, calligraphic enigma who climbed walls to take her from behind—she could afford to be generous toward poor Mercer, his shaggy head and grotesque fatty back.†
p. 254.8
- So the watch does a very simple thing by recognizing, categorizing and, most crucially, counting those words.†
p. 340.9
- She'd connected a few dots: the efficiency and utility of the CircleSurveys, the constant Circle goal of total saturation, the universal hope for real and unfiltered—and, most crucially, complete—democracy.†
p. 401.9
- Obviously things are messed up, and you're in a unique position to influence very crucial historic events here.†
p. 405.2crucial = very important
Definitions:
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(1)
(crucial) very important or necessary -- often because it determines how something else will turn out
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)