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necessary or important or relating to the basic nature of something
- He could see shadows and detect movement peripherally, but beyond that the eye was essentially blind.p. 169.6
- Providing a glimpse into what Adam's job entailed, that same lieutenant wrote, His absolute dedication ensured 100 percent accountability and maintenance of over 300K of parachutes and associated mission essential equipment [while he] served as lead instructor and established standard operating procedures for a vital week of interoperability training with the 160th Special Operations Air Regiment.p. 159.7
- And that's important because there are overlapping fields of fire and over-sweeps and all kinds of crazy patterns, sort of like football plays, that we have in a playbook that will essentially teach you to storm into any structure and kill bad guys with guns.p. 202.9
- On the drive to school that day in 1990, the boys had pointed wooden rifles, props for a school play, out their windows at pedestrians, drivers, essentially anything that moved.p. 245.8
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