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importance

[im-pawr-tns] / ɪmˈpɔr tns /




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Gauna hopes his videos help educate people about the importance of coexisting with sharks.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

“The parents learn the value of those interactions with their children. The importance of spending time truly talking, not just directive talk … but open-ended questions, using songs and rhymes, storytelling, descriptive language.”

From Slate Sep. 5, 2026

"Beyond fundamental importance, this discovery can enable novel planar device architectures and sensor types, such as vector magnetometry, via measuring the out-of-plane and in-plane anomalous Hall effect signals in the same device," Singh said.

From Science Daily Sep. 3, 2026

India has already taken a step: the government now treats submarine cable systems as critical telecommunications infrastructure, recognising their importance to international connectivity.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

The paper would have been disregarded as meaningless had it not been encased in a glass frame, hinting at greater importance.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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

I want my readers to be intelligent about understanding the relative importances of different hygienic treatment and useful supporting practices.

From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor by Steve Solomon

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

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




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