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And if there were ever a summer when one might have expected a little consensus about the importance of competent food-safety oversight, surely it was this one.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

“I want the participants of the exhibit to have a real understanding of the importance of Brockman Gallery in the position of the art world and not just in the Black community,” said Dale.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

But Rubio insisted this week's tour is of strategic importance.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

“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

“It is of no further use to you. It holds a great deal of importance to me. I will not be dissuaded. Name your price.”

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

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

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

Thus the commissioners, recovering from their panic, began to frown with importances.

From Gargoyles by Ben Hecht

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

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