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Crucial

adjective

Of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis. Synonym: important. "A crucial election" , "A crucial issue for women" Antonym: noncrucial.

Having crucial relevance. "Relevant testimony"

Of the greatest importance. Synonyms: all-important, all important, essential, of the essence. "Crucial information" , "In chess cool nerves are of the essence"

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"Crucial" Quotes from Famous Books

... named Jones, and Cohen were imprisoned. Some where $269,000 was missing. Nobody knew anything about it. The books having to do with the transaction had mysteriously disappeared. Two days later an Irishman found them floating in the bay, and brought them to the court. But the crucial pages were missing. And then suddenly, while both Judge Hazen and Judge Park were out of town, application was made to the Supreme Court—of which Judge Terry was head—for the release of Jones and Cohen. ...

— The Gray Dawn • Stewart Edward White

... this autumn of 1917 was extremely interested in certain crucial experiments he was making with spiculum in sponge-cells; with scleroblasts, "mason-cells," osteoblasts, and "consciousness" in bone-cells. Most of the glass jars in which these experiments were going ...

— Mrs. Warren's Daughter - A Story of the Woman's Movement • Sir Harry Johnston

... armament—at any rate I was warned to watch out for "swinging lines in the haze, like straight strings of pink stars" and later told to aim at the sources of such lines. And naturally I guessed that the steel cubes must be some crucial weapon for Atla-Hi, or ammunition for a weapon, or parts for some essential instrument like a giant computer, but the voice ignored my questions on that point and didn't fall into the couple of crude conversational traps I tried to set. ...

— The Night of the Long Knives • Fritz Reuter Leiber

... retrospective consideration. Unlike the laws of perspective, distance gives it greater size. So it was with Gorham's supreme and final demonstration of his strength. To Covington, who, true to his promise of the night before, was present at this crucial meeting of the Board of Directors, and marvelled that his chief demanded of him only a statement regarding the real purchaser of the stock, this dissolution of the Consolidated Companies appeared as ...

— The Lever - A Novel • William Dana Orcutt

... "It's my little cousin, overcome with emotion. She's been counting the hours till you came—been hearing of you from me and others for a good while; and hasn't been able to talk or think of anything else. She's only fifteen, and the crucial moment is too much for her—the Great Harkless has arrived, and ...

— The Gentleman From Indiana • Booth Tarkington

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