importance

“Parents who had little boys definitely recognized the importance of this,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

An association for private trade schools and career colleges is so concerned it has created a task force to reach out to students about the importance of loan repayment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

Its goal is to increase awareness of the Mediterranean diet's health, cultural, and environmental importance around the world.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026

Even Amazon can recognize the importance of a piece of direct mail that makes holiday shopping less likely to cause choice paralysis.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

When Chief Powhatan sends word that he will trade for corn, Captain Ratcliffe goes strutting around the fort, full of his own importance.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

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 Butler, Samuel

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

From Gargoyles by Hecht, Ben

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 Solomon, Steve

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 Butler, Samuel

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 Butler, Samuel