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
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unimportant
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Next to the rivers of food that flood the modern appetite, risotto is a minor tributary.Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
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Areas that are low-lying, already wet or have poor drainage could be at a risk for minor flooding depending on how heavy the rain is this week.Remington Miller, arkansasonline.com, 16 Dec. 2024
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Shaikh said the swap is happening in the food hall's incubator section, where small businesses can get a stall and a six month lease to try out new concepts.Jordyn Noennig, Journal Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2024
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Many were small, but if the thunderstorm coincided with Santa Ana winds, the gusts could blow embers into the canyons, spreading the conflagration rapidly.Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024
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In the Midwest, ground blizzards develop with little or no new snowfall.Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 7 Dec. 2024
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Half the fun of making these little sweets is unwrapping the mini chocolates.Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2024
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Coined as far back as 1854 by Henry David Thoreau in Walden, the idea of mental deterioration from trivial distractions has never been more relevant.Mark Travers, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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In Africa, businesses like Abubakar’s keep countless tons of toxic trash out of landfills, reduce the need for mining, and create thousands of jobs—hardly a trivial consideration in a nation where nearly two-thirds of people live in poverty.Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
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Photograph: Getty EVs are practically worthless secondhand, because the huge batteries will need expensive replacement after a few years.James Morris, WIRED, 8 Dec. 2024
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Accusations started flying, with many crypto observers alleging that $HAWK was a pump-and-dump scheme, or a rug pull — when developers build hype for a crypto project to raise money only to liquidate their position and walk away, with others left holding worthless tokens.Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
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The air concentrations of VOCs found in some candle studies have been insignificant when compared with levels previously deemed unsafe.Kristen Rogers, CNN, 29 Nov. 2024
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In fairness, the aid to families is not insignificant.Bridget Grumet, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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Although the slippers looked nearly identical, a consultant for the Smithsonian analyzed slight differences in the pairs and determined that the ones that were sold on Saturday were in many of the most famous scenes of the movie.Hank Sanders, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2024
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As a result, Goose will always have a slight limp because his leg is now a bit shorter.Joy Jackson , Eula Calahan, arkansasonline.com, 8 Dec. 2024
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“Unimportant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unimportant. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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