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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a defining aspect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a characteristic or feature that is essential in identifying or understanding something.
Example: "The ability to adapt to change is a defining aspect of successful leadership."
Alternatives: "a key feature" or "a crucial element".
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Tessa lost a defining aspect of her identity.
Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human.
Strong, property rule protection – implemented via injunctions, criminal sanctions and supercomepnsatory damages – is a defining aspect of property.
A defining aspect of his current vogue is the tremendous range — in age, nationality and artistic styles — of the artists claiming his work as inspiration.
Hate speech has been a defining aspect of the Hungarian right wing since well before the transition to multi-party democracy in 1989.
This wasn't a necessary evil, it was a defining aspect of being a parent – an exercise of self-sacrifice, presence and solidarity with my partner.
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The competitor array is an artificially made plasmid DNA in which the competitor templates for the target DNAs in question are arranged with a defined aspect ratio.
But "shocked society" as a new defining aspect of the 2010s?
Although the influence of its neighbors is a formative and defining aspect of Eastern European history, it is not the only one.
The only other area of inquiry accorded this status is mathematics; clearly, for Locke, morality represents a unique and defining aspect of what it means to be human.
Sex, of course, has been a mainstay and defining aspect of gay culture since people began to acknowledge there was such a thing as "gay culture".
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