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How to pronounce “crucial”
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Pronunciation guide for crucial
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of crucial with real speech in context.
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- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Fun Inc: Tom Chatfield: Why Games are the 21st Century's Most Serious Business
any sort of a crucial way. Part and central to this is, I think largely
- Definition summary
- Essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important; vital.
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How to pronounce crucial
Fun Inc: Tom Chatfield: Why Games are the 21st Century's Most Serious Business

any sort of a crucial way. Part and central to this is, I think largely
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “crucial”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Essential or decisive for determining the outcome or future of something; extremely important; vital.
- (archaic) Cruciform or cruciate; cross-shaped.
- (slang, especially Jamaica, Bermuda) Very good; excellent; particularly applied to reggae music.
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