importance
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Mr. Guimarães makes a metaphor of the importance of individual rights with his first bit of sleight of hand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
But the emphasis is on everyone to chip in and I would also reinforce one of the points I made in this column last season, about the importance of defending properly too.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The move highlights the importance of technology development and the growing role of Disney+ as the company’s so-called digital centerpiece under new chief executive Josh D’Amaro.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
It seems natural that scores of American Jews would feel connected to Israel, after growing up being told of its supreme importance and perhaps visiting the country or having family there.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026
The importance of the golden ratio comes from a Pythagorean discovery that is now barely remembered.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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We are beginning to have glamours and importances of our own.
From On the Stairs by Henry Blake Fuller
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
Van Eyck’s finish is saved because up to the last he is essentially impressionist, that is, he keeps a just account of relative importances and keeps them in their true subordination one to another.
From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Samuel Butler
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
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