Meaning & use
Crucially
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In a way that is essential or of decisive importance to an outcome.
See it in a sentence
Crucially, the witness confirmed the exact time the incident occurred.
The new engine is lighter and, crucially, far more fuel-efficient than the old one.
A note on using this word
Crucially is often placed at the start of a sentence to flag the single most important point among several facts just mentioned.
Words with a similar meaning
criticallyvitally
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Words with an opposite meaning
incidentallytrivially
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