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Discover LudwigThe phrase "mainspring of" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to refer to the primary or most important driving force behind something. Example: "Education is often considered the mainspring of personal and societal development."
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Is mainspring of Chicago Opera Association.
That offensive prank is the mainspring of the movie.
He is also the mainspring of NYCB's identity.
She must have been the mainspring of his days.
Study, the mainspring of universities, burdens looking, the playground of art.
Zula, from New York, built pointillistic structures with a mainspring of Minimalism.
The mainspring of the plot, in Chapter 1, establishes the antic tone.
Fidelity to her beloved father's memory and reputation was the mainspring of her life.
As VS Pritchett wrote of Ford: "Confusion was the mainspring of his art as a novelist.
Insatiable desire is the mainspring of Caroline Meeber's existence in Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie," she said.
This school was an offspring of the New Theatre League — "the mainspring of the Agitprop . . .
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