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cruxes

noun

variants also cruces

plural of crux

as in roots

the central part or aspect of something under consideration the crux of the problem is that the school's current budget is totally inadequate

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Legion targets contested airspace The system’s roots stretch back to Lockheed Martin’s earlier IRST work.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2026
The oldest company on the list, brewing giant Anheuser-Busch InBev, traces its roots back 660 years to the Den Hoorn brewery in Leuven, Belgium.

— Sam Birchall, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2026

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To experience a thicker, chewier noodle, order the tsukemen (dipping-style ramen) with a broth, as dense as gravy, fusing the essences of pork, chicken and fish.

— Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
Common formats include serums, moisturizers and creams, cleansers, essences and toners, and masks.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Charlotte Observer, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of essences

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The chip includes a second Neural Engine, bringing the total to 32 Neural Engine cores.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2026
Bridget Wade, a micropaleontologist at University College London, had been studying sediment cores for decades when her team noticed a curious pattern.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of cores

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To Longwell, such statements suggest that voters don’t want politicians to force them to choose between their hearts and their fears.

— Isaac Arnsdorf, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026
Previous research in the field had used blood pressure and heart rate to infer how well hearts were functioning.

— Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 15 Sep. 2026

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These—which would soon earn its authors comparisons to Adolf Hitler, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Spanish Inquisition, and which would be called the Jurenberg Laws, reminiscent of the Nuremberg Laws—included seven points.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
Republicans lead Democrats on border security and crime by over 20 percentage points, but are significantly less popular on data centers and healthcare — Democrats score 12 points higher than Republicans on the former and over 20 on the latter.

— Carter Schroppe, The Washington Examiner, 21 Sep. 2026

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