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[ adjective ] of the greatest importance

Examples

"the all-important subject of disarmament" "crucial information" "in chess cool nerves are of the essence"

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[ adjective ] of the greatest importance

Examples

"the all-important subject of disarmament" "crucial information" "in chess cool nerves are of the essence"

Used in print

(William C. Smith, "Why Fear Ideas?"...)

So all-important are ideas , we are told , that persons successful in business and happy in social life usually fall_into two classes : those who invent new ideas of their own , and those who borrow , beg , or steal from others .

Merely having a mental_image of some sort is not the all-important consideration .

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