importance
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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
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
His importance is underlined by the fact he has contributed the same amount of goals and assists, six, as Bellingham since England faced DR Congo.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
No one truly disputes the importance of due process to handle accusations of sexual violence.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
“It must indeed be a matter of great importance if you felt the need to come to me directly.”
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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
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
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
We are beginning to have glamours and importances of our own.
From On the Stairs by Henry Blake Fuller
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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