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pivotal

/piv-uh-tl/US // ˈpɪv ə tl //UK // (ˈpɪvətəl) //

关键性的,关键的,中枢性的,中枢的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or serving as a pivot.
    • : of vital or critical importance: a pivotal event.

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Examples

  • That those same experts have played pivotal roles in steering Hong Kong’s highly successful pandemic response does not seem to matter.

  • Voter-suppression attempts must be remedied before this pivotal election.

  • These reviews and ratings summarize your business’ track record and can play a pivotal role in influencing searchers to visit or contact your business.

  • This scramble to manufacture vaccines has risks that the world witnessed 65 years ago, at a similarly pivotal moment for medical science.

  • We started 2020, which was supposed to be a pivotal comeback year for the agencies, with most of them hovering around 3% growth.

  • The Barclays Center where the Duke and Duchess will be seated would have stood in thick of where the pivotal action transpired.

  • He was pivotal in the creation and survival of the Museum of Modern Art.

  • A pivotal moment comes when Amir admits he felt more than a flicker of pride when fanatics attacked the Twin Towers.

  • “Carrie Bradshaw was so pivotal in creating the allure of the New York City woman,” Arora says.

  • The issues that currently favor Democrats are very likely to be pivotal ones come 2016.

  • This is the motto, drawn from Emerson, which she chooses for her poem of "Epochs," which marks a pivotal moment in her life.

  • Hence, the picture must continually change, and pivotal flexibility is especially necessary.

  • Primarily, it is obedience to the dramatic instinct that causes this pivotal action.

  • That the pivotal action of the body in a monologue is especially important can be seen at once.

  • Without this pivotal action, the reader is apt to declaim a monologue, and confuse it with a speech.