importance
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“The importance of not rushing girlhood,” Ms. FitzSimons writes, “that liminal phase after the haze of early childhood but before boy-crazy adolescence” was a personal cause for American Girl’s creator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
Earlier research from Mount Sinai and Emory University helped establish the importance of these networks.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
She monitored the president’s social media posts to discern what was of importance to him, then would go on air to talk about those topics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Carrick knows the importance of ending that sequence in terms of easing the pressure on his own future.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Had his eyes swollen accidentally by girls who swung their arms around to make sure their friends understood the importance of whatever they were saying.
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
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We are beginning to have glamours and importances of our own.
From On the Stairs by Henry Blake Fuller
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
Thus the commissioners, recovering from their panic, began to frown with importances.
From Gargoyles by Ben Hecht
All perception of relative importances depends upon a just appreciation of which letters in association’s bond association will most readily dispense with.
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
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