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important

[im-pawr-tnt] / ɪmˈpɔr tnt /




ADJECTIVE
having personal or emotional value
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“We chose this name for a few important reasons,” Ellison wrote Friday in an X post.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

As the players prepared to head out for the mission, conversations turned to far more important matters.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

The palace said discussions about the colonial legacy and the slave trade were "important" but "primarily matters for governments to address".

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Lean can verify any sequence of deductions, but it still relies on Mathlib—a human-created aggregate of mathematics that humans found important and meaningful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

“That you’d be happy for me. That you’d be proud of me. Now that I’ve spent so much time helping you, I hoped you’d let me do something that’s important to me.”

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam




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