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importance

[im-pawr-tns] / ɪmˈpɔr tns /




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The findings highlight the importance of studying ancient landscapes alongside the fossils and artifacts found within them.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

“Everyone recognizes the importance of rewarding zero-emission truck usage.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

In those cases, at least, the science was mostly real and the issue was just AI potentially exaggerating its importance.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

He also stressed the importance of talks with Lebanon, with the two sides sitting down the following month for direct negotiations that are still ongoing.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

“You should know better than anyone the importance of secrecy to security,” Callaway said.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

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

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

From Gargoyles by Ben Hecht

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

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

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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