Example Sentences

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Mr Powell’s previous comments about the unimportance of British overseas territories are extremely concerning and many will be worried that there is more to come.”

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2024

And as the line between business and leisure blurs into so-called bleisure travel, off-site organizers are recognizing the relative unimportance of traditional meetings and schedules.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2022

But that didn't stop him from weighing on their unimportance and the character of their caretakers.

From Salon • Jan. 15, 2022

The perceived unimportance of broadcast television creates opportunity of a sort; in reversal of historical trends, the older platform provides the alternative — family entertainments, more or less, stretched over long seasons.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2022

During the fifteenth century the Inquisition in central Italy subsided into the same unimportance that we have witnessed elsewhere.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles