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importance

[im-pawr-tns] / ɪmˈpɔr tns /




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On this episode of Money Talks, host Elizabeth Spiers talks to Justin Hendrix of Tech Policy Press, about the importance of A.I. regulation and what effective tech safety policy looks like.

From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2026

Investors have focused on the financials of privately held AI companies given their importance in sustaining demand for chips as well as questions about whether their hefty AI spending will deliver appropriate returns.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

"AI delivers real value, and its importance will only grow," Hanebeck said, calling the technology a "key driver of our growth and profitability".

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026

Dr. Jennifer Rood, Interim Senior Vice Chancellor and Executive Director of Pennington Biomedical, emphasized the importance of connecting laboratory discoveries with research involving patients and broader populations.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

Zero clashed with one of the central tenets of Western philosophy, a dictum whose roots were in the number-philosophy of Pythagoras and whose importance came from the paradoxes of Zeno.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

The difficulty lies in the nice appreciation of relative importances and in the giving each detail neither more nor less than its due. 

From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Samuel Butler

It has been wisely said that intelligence may be defined as the ability to correctly determine differences, similarities, and importances.

From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor by Steve Solomon

One of the actual penalties of this is that so few of such ancient importances remain definable or presentable.

From Notes of a Son and Brother by Henry James

We are beginning to have glamours and importances of our own.

From On the Stairs by Henry Blake Fuller

She replied nothing at first, till he feared she might think it her duty to resent a question that made light of all her husband's importances.

From Madame De Mauves by Henry James


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