importance
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Aside from officials in China who may have retaliated against the printer, no one would have ascribed it any importance whatsoever.
From Slate ● Nov. 14, 2026
The love affairs of the dead have little importance to the next century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Just as the team needs to move past a loss, Maiava understands the importance of looking beyond arguably the team’s best win of the season and remaining focused on the present.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
The researchers emphasize the importance of scientific evidence in understanding the full consequences of infections, particularly when policy choices can undermine coordinated efforts to prevent infectious diseases.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026
Ever since her own parents died, these visits from her mother-in-law had taken on extra importance, and she’d putter around the house, cleaning and cooking, biting her nails as she went.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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For when we feel that a painter has made simplicity and subordination of importances his first aim, it is surprising how much shortcoming we will condone as regards actual execution.
From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Samuel Butler
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
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
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 A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
The chromatic differences of other errors of reproduction have seldom practical importances.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
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