Padmasree Warrior

My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. His sense of humor and light-hearted approach always make me smile. My husband is a pivotal anchor in my life. His influence encourages me to be independent and take risks.

Indian Businesswoman

Jim Lee

As an artist, as I design and lay out a page, the less-important things, things I want you to spend less time looking at, I draw them very small, maybe even silhouette them. The more-important pivotal scenes, I draw them larger, maybe even a double-page spread.

South Korean Artist

Eric Burdon

People we've encountered at pivotal moments who profoundly influence our direction are not necessarily the people whose names everybody knows. More often, they are the people who say or do just the right thing, at the right time.

British Musician

Gary Oldman

Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.

English Actor

Parineeti Chopra

There's nothing new about women playing pivotal parts or title roles in films. Women in strong characters have always been accepted. It has been this way for years.

Indian Actress

Allen Weinstein

This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents.

American Public Servant

Jim Coleman

I've had a lot of highs in my life and a lot of lows, some pivotal experiences, and in ways I feel like I've already lived a couple of lives.

American Actor

I value my looks very much, so it's equally important to take good care of my skin - that's a pivotal part of my face.

South Korean Musician

Jim Ross

All of the pivotal moments in my adult life are connected to the wrestling business.

American Entertainer

Justin Hartley

I mean, 15 - that is such a pivotal time in a young man's life.

Use 'pivotal' for situations or elements that determine the final result.

Essence of Outcome

'Pivotal' often describes decisions or moments with lasting impact on a narrative or history.

Impactful Choices

'Pivotal' means more than just 'important'; it's crucial and forms a turning point.

Not Just Important

In technical contexts, 'pivotal' refers to the literal center of rotation in mechanics.

Technical Usage

Use 'pivotal' in physics to talk about parts that are central to motion or balance.

Scientific Concepts

In engineering, 'pivotal' describes elements crucial for function or structure.

Engineering Context

 But this particular reality was not inevitable. The tiniest perturbation of that asteroid far from Earth would have caused it to miss our planet by a wide margin. The pivotal, calamitous day during which the dinosaurs were wiped out, setting the stage for the modern world as we know it didn't have to be. It could've just been another day --

Hunting for dinosaurs...

 and they did all this as single-celled life forms. They're cyanobacteria, and the story of these simple organisms that don't even have nuclei or any other organelles is a pivotal chapter in the story of life on Earth. Earth's atmosphere wasn't always the oxygen-rich mixture we breathe today.

How a single-celled...

 sex of her children which plays a pivotal role in their future if the queen wants to lay a female egg she will fertilize the egg by releasing spermatozoa that is stored in the spermatheca which sits behind her ovaries the spermatheca is filled during her first week of life when she mates

How Do Honeybees Get...

 it then came to Italy Italy was the pivotal moment I think when it explodes in Italy and that's when everyone starts panicking and you could even argue that maybe there was a slight overreaction and that's why you started seeing models that said two to three million people

How the coronavirus...

 liquid water on its surface and an oxygen-rich atmosphere. But this has not always been the case, and we know this because ancient rocks have recorded the pivotal moments in Earth's planetary evolution. And one of the best places to observe those ancient rocks

This ancient rock is...

 blood donation and we go through it and to help with accelerating this familiarity and fluency with these kinds of technologies I think places like Jen's Bates are going to play a really pivotal role elevating the scientific literacy of our population in the

When technology...

 draining waste in water conduits below. Today, most cultures consider trips to the restroom to be a more private occasion. But even when going alone, our shared sewage infrastructure is one of the most pivotal inventions in the history of humanity.

A brief history of...

 garbage dump we are at a pivotal point in the history of our planet we're about to lose sharks and many other animals if we don't step up to the plate right now and make the changes that we need to do in order to protect sharks worldwide we

Shark Encounter in 180:...

 sitting foot on the lunar landscape our understanding of the moon and wider space has increased massively telescopes such as this one have been pivotal in unlocking some of spaces greatest secrets as well as offering fascinating

How The Moon Affects Our...

 He was treated with radiation therapy, state-of-the-art radiation therapy, but it didn't help. Many patients like that favor radiation therapy. And again, he volunteered to a pivotal study