key insight
collocation in Englishmeaningsofkeyandinsight
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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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insight
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈɪn.saɪt/us/ˈɪn.saɪt/
(the ability to have) a clear, deep, and sometimes sudden understanding of a complicated problem ...
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(Definition ofkeyandinsightfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofkey insight
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This gives akeyinsightinto mechanisms of human impacts on the environment.
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Thekeyinsightin this process is that this release of labour to other sectors does not occur without increases in agricultural productivity.
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We draw attention to thiskeyinsightsince a similar dynamic is at work in several of the papers we address below.
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Nevertheless, it provides akeyinsight, namely that via wages, the payment provides a conduit through which externality abatement can be encouraged.
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Akeyinsightof the citizen-candidate model is that candidates may enter an election for strategic reasons other than winning the election.
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Thekeyinsightof the lower bound constructions is the understanding of how a sophisticated type system can be used to type terms having long reduction sequences to normal form.
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In terms of unemployment, then, hiskeyinsightis that the benefit system actually acts to reduce employment, and hence increase unemployment, by keeping wages higher than they need be.
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Itskeyinsighthas been to break down the perhaps false dichotomy that has existed in urban policy making between the top-down versus bottom-up analysis of civic participation.
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Thekeyinsight(or assumption) is that the employers are risk neutral while the workers are risk averse.
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Thekeyinsightis (pun not intended) that all candidate keys can be created this way.
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This discovery provided akeyinsightinto factors that distinguish one cell type from another.
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Thiskeyinsightmade possible his enormous influence on the economics of the industrialized world after 1950.
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Thekeyinsightin the algorithm is that, for any integers and, where is the length of the loop to be found.
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Her dialogue provideskeyinsightfor the audience into humanist beliefs on the nature of love and the process of falling in love.
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Thekeyinsightis that the sum of the first two equations is the third equation.
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Thekeyinsightin this formulation is that the economic outcome can be affected by the economic institution.
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Paul'skeyinsightis that the secondary can then be converted back to a spherical mirror.
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Berry'skeyinsightin the case was that distributors should earn a return commensurate to the distribution services performed.
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Davies'keyinsightcame in the realization that computer network traffic was inherently bursty with periods of silence, compared with relatively constant telephone traffic.
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