as in root
the central part or aspect of something under consideration
finally got to the pith of the discussion
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Recent Examples of pith
Don’t strip away the white pith.
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Dr. Steven Gundry, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2025
The pith may come along while removing the seeds.
—Merve Ceylan, Health, 5 Nov. 2025
Anderson’s title lacks Pynchon’s pith but daydreams a culture of never-ending political obstruction and pandemonium.
—James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025
The blend balances a velvety, silky structure with flourishes of rose-water and pleasantly bitter citrus flavors, like biting into a ripe orange through the peel and pith.
—Elizabeth Wellington, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025
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No one could trace the secret roots of Skinny Pedro’s devotion to the world of machines.—
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Short-term fixes alone are unlikely to address the root causes of affordability and, if misguided, could even prove counterproductive.—
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In this poetry collection, Vilariño strips poetry to its essence—distilling love, loss, and the inexorable passage of time into spare yet searing verses.—
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Stripped to their symbolic essence, the erotics of Frankenstein are about the body as meat, electrified by carnal pleasure and unencumbered by the soul.—
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Kipling City Pack Backpack Pocket space is at the very heart of this backpack’s design, which has over five different compartments on the interior and exterior.—
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What the museum dream team did not see was the pain in our hearts about this jail.—
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Visa and MasterCard have responded to growing scrutiny with minor, cosmetic adjustments, but the core problem remains unchanged.—
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Instead, creators will take on the role of consultants, as brands develop more substantial partnerships with the talent that now make up such a core part of their marketing strategies.—
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Waymon Cox, an assistant park superintendent, compared the diamond to a corn kernel.—
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It’s served alongside a slab of cold sweet potato and garnished with hefty kernels of the dent corn called choclo.—
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“Pith.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pith. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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