importance
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The importance of career opportunities like networking and interning just wasn’t top of mind for Erle.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
"I am concerned that these cuts are particularly targeted towards mental health care services that are of equal importance to patients."
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Six different codons encode arginine, highlighting its broad importance in protein production.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
The struggles many people had with the smoke are a sad reminder of the importance air quality has for our health.
From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2026
Daddy kept staring hard out the window, like he was searching for something of the utmost importance.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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Thus the commissioners, recovering from their panic, began to frown with importances.
From Gargoyles by Hecht, Ben
We are beginning to have glamours and importances of our own.
From On the Stairs by Fuller, Henry Blake
In the particular juncture, the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Tracy, took my view of relative importances, and time was secured me.
From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
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 Butler, Samuel
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 James, Henry