consequential

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Such errors can be corrected, and they aren’t always consequential.

From Slate • Mar. 28, 2026

Each time he announces a consequential decision, the report found, an “epidemic of suspicious trading” occurs just before the news would affect the markets.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026

The most consequential technology of our lifetimes is being regulated by people who can’t agree on what it is.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Somewhat miraculously, we’re carried out of this consequential collision of hearts and minds on the lightest of notes, with the sense that our capacity to rediscover harmony will always be beautifully mysterious.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

One of the last and most consequential acts of the Congress was to pass the Northwest Ordinance in July of 1787.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis