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Example Sentences
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But what mattered to Nick was the idea, not the intent, and he used me in his column as a foil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
What the camera saw mattered almost as much as where it was looking from.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
All that mattered was playing the character I wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
"Instead, we found that inhibiting the enzyme had little effect. What mattered was whether the protein itself was present."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
He wasn’t sure it mattered, but this was entirely new news to him.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
