unimportant
adjective
un·im·por·tant
ˌən-im-ˈpȯr-tᵊnt 
especially Southern US and New England -tənt,
-dənt
unimportantly
adverb
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we figured that the details were unimportant as long as we got the basic design correct
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Benjamin Deneen, the paper’s lead author, tells Popular Science that in the early days of neuroscience, research tended to focus on neurons, treating other cells as relatively unimportant support structures.
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Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2024
That’s not to say lawmakers haven’t repeatedly tinkered with its specifics, or that those changes have been unimportant.
—Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
On his New Heights podcast last month, Jason Kelce branded the football position unimportant.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
This is a truly epic, widescreen landscape designed to put us fundamentally unimportant humans in our place.
—James Rampton, theweek, 24 Oct. 2024
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Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2024
That’s not to say lawmakers haven’t repeatedly tinkered with its specifics, or that those changes have been unimportant.
—Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
On his New Heights podcast last month, Jason Kelce branded the football position unimportant.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
This is a truly epic, widescreen landscape designed to put us fundamentally unimportant humans in our place.
—James Rampton, theweek, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Unimportant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unimportant. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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