Example Sentences

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Instead, they should look for companies that have the capacity to raise their payouts, says Trivariate Research founder Adam Parker, who notes that dividend increases have mattered more to stock performance of late.

From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026

“This is like arguing that it would not have mattered if the Soviets beat the U.S. to a nuclear weapon,” the committee wrote on X.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025

I don’t know if Lewandowski and Johnson knew any of that before they started talking, but I get the feeling it wouldn’t have mattered anyway.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2025

In times as desperate as these, it’s unclear how much Alvarado’s filibuster really would have mattered.

From Slate • Aug. 28, 2025

That Lola, who was fifteen, and the nine-year-old twins, Jackson and Pierrot, were refugees from a bitter domestic civil war should have mattered more to Briony.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan