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The central and most important point of an issue.
noun
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crux
The crux of the disagreement was who would maintain the building.
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A small editorial team was redesigning a printed journal whose readers often struggled to locate a particular essay. The crux of the discussion was whether the new layout would make that search easier, not whether the cover looked more fashionable.
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