importance
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He certainly doesn’t understand compromise or the importance of local issues.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
Schlossman said the market’s reaction Thursday emphasizes the importance of understanding how each company reports its revenue before making comparisons.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Health Secretary Yvette Cooper added: "Professor Fonagy's review has shown the importance of early intervention to address mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions and the huge distress these can cause."
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
For the actors it was also an opportunity to reflect on the importance of friendship, and to share stories from behind the wheel.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
It was the first time anyone had successfully crossed the North Pole in flight—a triumph of international importance for Soviet aircraft designers and pilots.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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
Thus the commissioners, recovering from their panic, began to frown with importances.
From Gargoyles by Ben Hecht
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
For when we feel that a painter has made simplicity and subordination of importances his first aim, it is surprising how much shortcoming we will condone as regards actual execution.
From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Samuel Butler
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