as in minor
lacking importance
we figured that the details were unimportant as long as we got the basic design correct
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Recent Examples of unimportant
These seemingly unimportant details often hold the key to designing solutions that truly work.
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Goran Paun, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
This might be tactical language, or propaganda, or unimportant.
—Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
Detractors often consider the beauty industry and those who build their careers in it, as unimportant in the grand scheme things.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024
Many women have been socialized to avoid discussing money, viewing it as taboo or unimportant.
—Melissa Houston, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
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Goran Paun, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
This might be tactical language, or propaganda, or unimportant.
—Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
Detractors often consider the beauty industry and those who build their careers in it, as unimportant in the grand scheme things.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024
Many women have been socialized to avoid discussing money, viewing it as taboo or unimportant.
—Melissa Houston, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
See all Example Sentences for unimportant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unimportant
Adjective
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Fewer than one in three arrestees were charged with any offense, and most of those were for minor infractions like jaywalking, littering, and blocking sidewalks.—
V.N. Trinh / Made by History,
TIME,
27 Jan. 2025
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The epigenetic clock theory suggests aging occurs due to accumulation of epigenetic modifications, or minor changes to the chemical structure of DNA that do not alter the underlying sequence but instead change which genes are on or off.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Sitting in front of local leaders, Trump again wrongly blamed elements of the fire disaster on a lack of water resources coming from the Delta and environmental protections for the delta smelt, a small fish near extinction that has become a symbol of GOP frustration.—
Ari Plachta,
Sacramento Bee,
25 Jan. 2025
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Imagine rewiring your belief in yourself even on a small stage, but in front of millions.—
Matthew Futterman,
The Athletic,
25 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The ensuing reply-all showed little sympathy for the ninety-five-year-old school and its community.—
Jessica Winter,
The New Yorker,
18 Jan. 2025
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The summer of 2020 did little to allay those fears: Inexperienced intelligence officers from the agency were deployed to Portland, Ore., to compile dossiers on people protesting against police violence.—
Eileen Sullivan,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Out of a trivial tension, an intimate and unsettling face-to-face confrontation suddenly arises.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
16 Jan. 2025
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Meanwhile, a small (but not trivial) minority of Republican spending hawks has been complaining that current levels of military spending are too high.—
Matthew Yglesias,
Twin Cities,
15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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In text messages from August 2022 produced in the suit, Ruiz indicates that the amount was to be paid in a pre-set amount of company stock that was worth less at that point and is practically worthless now.—
Ben Wieder and,
Miami Herald,
17 Jan. 2025
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Some celebrities have been accused of operating pump-and-dump schemes with their coins, using their social media following to artificially inflate the value of these coins before cashing in their large holdings and rendering the coins worthless.—
Ben Dandridge-Lemco,
Rolling Stone,
29 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The symbolism of having the speech in a space desecrated by a small but not insignificant number of Trump supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, has been lost on nobody.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Jan. 2025
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But prosecutor Scheller argued that the earlier injury was insignificant.—
Erin Moriarty,
CBS News,
18 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The snow started falling Sunday afternoon, with a slight mix of hail.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
19 Jan. 2025
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That slight warming trend is expected to continue Friday, when high temperatures reach the upper 30s, with lows in the upper teens.—
Matt Hubbard,
Baltimore Sun,
19 Jan. 2025
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“Unimportant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unimportant. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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