crucial role

collocation in English

meaningsofcrucialandrole

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crucial
adjective
uk
/ˈkruː.ʃəl/
us
/ˈkruː.ʃəl/
extremely important ...
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role
noun[C]
uk
/rəʊl/
us
/roʊl/
the position or purpose that someone or something has in a situation, organization, society, ...
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(Definition ofcrucialandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcrucial role

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In later development, language plays acrucialrolein understanding the world, and in leading to change in culture-specific behavior.
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State power actually played acrucialrolein enabling the rise of the coffeehouses, especially through the system of licensing.
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A microscopic system in which microscopic physics plays acrucialroleexists in the vicinity of the reconnection point.
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Global analysis of the dynamical system defined by travelling-wave solutions to the associated parabolic equation plays acrucialrolein this theory.
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The rules of chess have acrucialroleto play in constituting our concept of chess.
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Women play acrucialrolein material expressions of the identity of pastoral groups, in power relations, local knowledge, social relations, and modernity.
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The multiple local public spheres and newspapers and periodicals of the time played acrucialrolein this endeavor.
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Intuitions have acrucialrolein justifying an empirical statement.
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Subsequent analysis of the activation profiles of the hidden layer confirmed thecrucialroleof distributed representations.
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This excerpt provides insights into the various factors involved in the interactive process, highlighting the callee'scrucialrolein the accomplishment of collaborative identification.
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Thus, they can play acrucialrolemainly in the final iterations phase.
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Royalists argued that an aristocracy, as a support for the monarch, played acrucialrolein the maintenance of stability.
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However, it has been found that electron and ion distributions play acrucialrolein the formation of nonlinear structures.
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He demonstrates thecrucialroleof journalism and new communication technologies in negotiating the role between readers, the market and ways of knowing.
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To conclude this section, it is important to highlight thecrucialroleof livestock productivity improvements in determining the impacts on both incomes and deforestation.
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In particular, it focuses on thecrucialroleof advisers, and examines their tools and activities, their self-evaluation and professional development mechanisms.
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Other ideological practices less reliant on metapragmatic discourse play acrucialrolein linking linguistic forms to ideas of ethno-national belonging.
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