Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a pivotal manner; by means of or on a pivot.
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- adverb In a
pivotal way.
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Examples
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Her resourcefulness brings some welcome comic relief though not without an element of suspense to another grueling hour that ends on a pivotally confrontational note.
Matt's Guide to Weekend TV: Torchwood and HBO Finales, Plus 9/11 Programming 2011
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Don't let your defensiveness about it shut down a pivotally important discussion though.
Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning Sundance Interview THE RUNAWAYS – Collider.com 2010
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Nuance and foreshadowing and metaphor and symbolism and repetition are all pivotally important to any diagnostician.
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Her resourcefulness brings some welcome comic relief though not without an element of suspense to another grueling hour that ends on a pivotally confrontational note.
Matt's Guide to Weekend TV: Torchwood and HBO Finales, Plus 9/11 Programming 2011
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Now Bancroft had New Hampshire, not a large state but pivotally located in the North, whence a Polk boomlet must come.
A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009
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Now Bancroft had New Hampshire, not a large state but pivotally located in the North, whence a Polk boomlet must come.
A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009
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So, it is that a lobbyist character just had to figure pivotally in O'Brien's return to comic acting after a hiatus of several years while he was getting his Capitol Hill career going.
Hill staffer Sean O'Brien mines Congress for comedy gold 2010
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[It] also is pivotally tied to the definition of our nation as a nation of immigrants, and I think people find tremendous motivation in that.
On Leadership 2010
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Farber, too, studied the past compulsively—and the episode that pivotally fascinated him was the story of the national polio campaign.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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So, it is that a lobbyist character just had to figure pivotally in O'Brien's return to comic acting after a hiatus of several years while he was getting his Capitol Hill career going.
Hill staffer Sean O'Brien mines Congress for comedy gold 2010
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