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They would be small enough for quantum effects to become important while also concentrating enough mass and energy for gravity to matter.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
Documents on the matter were shared with at least some of them, the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
The proposal came about in the final two days of negotiations, according to two people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to comment publicly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Anne Frances O'Kelly explained how, no matter how far she had been from Northern Ireland and how happy her life was there was a deep inside feeling of "irrecoverable loss and distress".
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
As a matter of fact, it came first to Jop, the seventeen-year-old apprentice who had sought a safe home at the Beje.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
“Determining what caused the Lineage fire matters — not only for accountability, but to help ensure a disaster like this does not happen again,” she said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
But for broader market investors, the overall trend matters, too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
The party's Scottish leader Malcolm Offord, who had tried to have the debate cancelled because it related to non-devolved matters, described it as an insult and a waste of time.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Income matters up to a point, but your complex payment history is the most important factor in credit scoring.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Having Abuelita think I was crazy would only complicate matters.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
No one seems to know who coined the term, but the label wasn’t what mattered; it was the idea that the military was hiding a device that could fix everything wrong with you.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
What mattered most on Wednesday was that Warsh gave Wall Street a reason to believe he was serious.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
The dimensions of both the swellings and their narrow connecting segments mattered.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
“Her presence mattered deeply to the people who knew and loved her.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
What did matter, indeed struck most readers as the only thing that truly mattered, was that George Washington was retiring.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
"Several analysts argue that the second-quarter number itself may end up mattering less than what management says about the quarter ahead," said Axel Rudolph, a market analyst at IG.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
As commander-in-chief, he noted, "you are worshipped and loved by all today, not loved by everyone tomorrow, and are guilty of everything the day after tomorrow, with none of your achievements mattering".
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
The revenue Huang points to is years from mattering; most of today’s physical-AI money is self-driving and factory automation rather than humanoids.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
We’ll see several startling upsets in this round that won’t end up mattering, along with a disheartening number of 0-0 and 1-1 draws.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
Proving the Theorem, in short, required more mattering than Colin brought to the table.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
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