(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Ingredients are the things that are used to make something, especially all the different foods you use when you are cooking a particular dish.
Mix in the remaining ~s.
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2.
An ~ of a situation is one of the essential parts of it.
The meeting had all the ~s of high political drama...
N-COUNT: oft N of/in n