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Example Sentences

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Phillips said while she recognised Sir Keir cared deeply it was "deeds, not words" that mattered.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

That day had to be Monday night, the only day that mattered for a Lakers team on the brink of elimination.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

By studying how ancient people responded to catastrophic eruptions, scientists hope to better understand which survival strategies mattered most and how those lessons could help us face future disasters.

From Science Daily • May 11, 2026

The rhetoric we use to define how we nourish ourselves has always mattered.

From Salon • May 7, 2026

Those who held that Copernicanism was literally true, however, insisted that in this case the truth of the hypothesis mattered.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton