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importance

[im-pawr-tns] / ɪmˈpɔr tns /




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And that highlighted the younger man's importance as a leader within the squad.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

She begins to realize her own importance in the filmmaking process, feeling “more together, active, confident than at almost any time I can remember.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

With that, “Chronovisor” and its obsessed protagonist enter a trancelike, analog-heavy state in which obscure texts in myriad languages tease a concealed parascientific history of potentially great importance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

No one truly disputes the importance of due process to handle accusations of sexual violence.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

Although Roosevelt could appreciate the importance of Rondon’s work, lives were now at stake—which included his son’s.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

The chromatic differences of other errors of reproduction have seldom practical importances.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

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

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

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




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