key contributor

collocation in English

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key
adjective
uk
/kiː/us
/kiː/
very important and having a lot of influence on other people ...
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contributor
noun[C]
uk
/kənˈtrɪb.jə.tər/us
/kənˈtrɪb.jə.t̬ɚ/
a person who contributes something, especially money, in order to provide or achieve something together with ...
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(Definition ofkeyandcontributorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Although genetic susceptibility is akeycontributorto disease development, disease onset and phenotypic presentation are probably modified by complex environmental interplay.
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He has been akeycontributorto the intense development of theoretical plasma physics that started in the late 1950s.
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Focusing attention on the logical level will aid this push and also provide the mechanism for increased system automation as akeycontributorto achieving competitive market advantage.
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We suggest that knowledge concerning unconscious mental processes and motivations could be integrated into the emerging science of the mind, to which developmental psychopathology remains akeycontributor.
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Freehand drawings also remained an important tool at the second stage, but model-making too emerged as akeycontributorto design evolution.
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Weather is akeycontributor.
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The figures show that there is no doubt that relatively easy access to alcohol is akeycontributorto the problems.
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It is akeycontributorto the successful prosecution of military operations.
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We are now seeing more balanced growth in the economy, which is akeycontributorto our current stability.
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The point of all of this is that when we are looking at rural economies we see tourism as akeycontributorto sustaining them.
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It is worth remembering that investing in girls' and women's education is not only essential to producing education outcomes, but akeycontributorto other development gains.
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His freshman season, he was akeycontributor.
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Poor leadership iskeycontributorto the low education status of this otherwise very rich area.
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He lectured on the subject of water fluoridation across the world, becoming akeycontributorto a controversial debate.
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Propagule pressure, however, was shown to be akeycontributorto both invasiveness and invasibility.
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He has written broadly on the history and sociology of science, and is known as akeycontributorto the sociology of scientific knowledge.
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On the court, when he was healthy, he was akeycontributor.
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Those who favor less centralized labor market policies consider these agreements bureaucratic, inflexible, and along with tax rates, akeycontributorto unemployment and distorted prices.
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He also founded a charter school for high school dropouts and was akeycontributorto a middle school pilot program developed to improve mathematics competency.
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Brown also was akeycontributorin both playoff wins, recording a combined total of 11 receptions for 308 yards and a touchdown.
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