importance
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In addition, he said, Moscow has deployed about a third of its elite Rubicon drone force to the sector—a sign of Dobropillia’s importance for the Kremlin now.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026
"I won't be going, as I'm not religious. But it's great that someone of such importance is coming," she said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
I take nothing away from, nor mean to diminish, the importance or pain of any victim, their story or their point of view.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Investigations into absolutely everything that has been corroded and broken in the courts and the Justice Department will be of paramount importance.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2026
“We realized the importance of saving Paris,” gunner William Maher of the U.S. artillery said later, “and the Allied army was at stake too.”
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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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
We are beginning to have glamours and importances of our own.
From On the Stairs by Henry Blake Fuller
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
Thus the commissioners, recovering from their panic, began to frown with importances.
From Gargoyles by Ben Hecht
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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