significance
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Small said the significance did not sink in for a couple of days.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
The symbolic significance of an independent agency for foreign aid is powerful too.
From Slate • Apr. 23, 2026
When news of the operation broke Sunday, the Chihuahua attorney general, César Jáuregui Moreno, attempted to downplay its significance, insisting that U.S. officials did not participate in the drug raid.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
I felt that if I sold or threw them away I was disposing of my mother and her mother, and their significance in my life.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
And when we try to draw conclusions from the facts we often go astray because we have misunderstood their significance.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing significance
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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