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- 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. 159.7essential = 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 *essentially = basically (in all important respects; or relating to the basic nature of something)
- 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
Definition:
necessary or important; or a basic and defining part of something