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importance

[im-pawr-tns] / ɪmˈpɔr tns /




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"I don't think he has to show his importance to Liverpool, I think everyone knows the qualities he has got anyway," said Warnock, who was a pundit on Wednesday's Match of the Day.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

This week she said the Trump administration had "very much underestimated" Canada's importance to Maine's business community.

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

"It highlights the importance of landscape and shared belief systems, as well as the remarkable effort involved in transporting and raising stones of this size."

From Science Daily Sep. 9, 2026

“And that was very clarifying for me. When you are the element that gets that story told, it takes on an importance and urgency.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

In the rapid movement and shuffle of birds and vehicles and radiator grilles, the tourists did not seem to recognize their positional importance in the flow of order.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen

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

All perception of relative importances depends upon a just appreciation of which letters in association’s bond association will most readily dispense with. 

From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Samuel Butler

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

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

I want my readers to be intelligent about understanding the relative importances of different hygienic treatment and useful supporting practices.

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

Thus the commissioners, recovering from their panic, began to frown with importances.

From Gargoyles by Ben Hecht




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