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importance

[im-pawr-tns] / ɪmˈpɔr tns /




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The extent of this importance is hard to exaggerate—from monitoring the world’s vast and growing data flows to protecting the data and infrastructure on which the fully digitized U.S. economy now relies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

The strategy highlights the importance of nature as providing the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

His prose is energetic, occasionally overexuberant — and, above all, a paean to Capra’s enduring importance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Using a statistical method called Bayesian weighting, the researchers assigned greater importance to models that more closely matched the historical evidence.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

To change this, he promoted simplified harmonies that made the melody the most prominent aspect of the music, and downgraded the importance of the other vocal parts to support the melody.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

It has been wisely said that intelligence may be defined as the ability to correctly determine differences, similarities, and importances.

From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor by Steve Solomon

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

The chromatic differences of other errors of reproduction have seldom practical importances.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Van Eyck’s finish is saved because up to the last he is essentially impressionist, that is, he keeps a just account of relative importances and keeps them in their true subordination one to another. 

From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Samuel Butler

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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