mattered

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She insists she is usually "the biggest girl on getting things done quickly", but says this mattered.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2026

Why have the visitors’ views mattered so much to so many of us?

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026

For all the work that went into the costumes, music and scripts, none of it mattered unless the watchers believed the actor tying it all together.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2026

During the Iran war, however, higher prices reduced “discretionary use, refiners cut runs, inventories became a buffer,” and alternative energy, which had been treated as background noise, “suddenly mattered in the real economy,” he said.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 18, 2026

Not that it mattered whether I knew or not, because he was going to tell me anyway.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen