Thesaurus results for IMPORTS

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noun

plural of import

as in senses

the idea that is conveyed or intended to be conveyed to the mind by language, symbol, or action didn't understand all the technical jargon, but got the general import of the speech

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imports

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verb

present tense third-person singular of import

as in matters

to be of importance it imports little whether you like Grandma's gift; you should have graciously thanked her

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as in means

to communicate or convey (as an idea) to the mind the word "freedom" can import different things to different people

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Recent Examples of imports

Noun

The federal government was preparing to change its rules on low-value imports, threatening her ability to purchase cheaper prescription medications for blood thinning and heart failure from Canada. — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 22 Oct. 2026 There are also significant caveats related to Trump’s central selling point to Americans — that the deal will bring a gusher of low-cost oil imports. — Cate Brown, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026 In response, Pretoria is looking to boost trade with China and India, though a flood of cheap imports from the former has angered domestic producers. — semafor.com, 20 Oct. 2026 Then there are tariffs, which are fundamentally a consumption tax on imports. — Markus Schneider, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2026 Trump has since looked for other legal authority to tax imports. — ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026 The executive order suspends tariffs of up to 500% on US imports from Russia and 100% on the top five importers of Russian oil and natural gas. — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 19 Oct. 2026 Without more batteries, Illinois will be even more reliant on dirty, expensive electricity imports from other states and more likely to delay the natural gas power plant closures it’s planned for years to clean the air. — John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026 Gas storage facilities typically cover only 25% to 30% of winter consumption, leaving the remainder heavily dependent on continuous imports. — CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026

Verb

The manufacturer from which Nordone’s company imports its toy blaster guns is headquartered in China’s Henan province and is listed as Cosmox North America’s top trading partner by ImportGenius. — Liz Goodwin, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2026 Miami String also makes its own cellos and basses at a workshop in Romania, a longtime supplier that Winters took over after the owners ran into financial trouble, and imports them into the United States. — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026 Fluxnium says the country currently imports more than 90% of its uranium. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2026 It's estimated that the United States imports more than 40% of these oils from the Middle East, which has been dealing with disruptions to oil supplies since the start of the Iran war earlier this year. — ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026 Nigerians spend more than $1 billion annually on medical services abroad, according to the government’s investment promotion agency, and the country imports 70% of its medicines. — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 11 Sep. 2026 The Philippines, which imports 98% of its oil from the Middle East, was hit hard by the outbreak of the Iran war in February. — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2026 Harting imports about 40% of its components, according to the presentations, and other locations being considered by the company offer more convenient access to overseas shipping routes. — Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Sep. 2026 Russia likewise imports few Indian goods and is not a source of today’s advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence. — C. Raja Mohan, Foreign Affairs, 27 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for imports

Noun

Inside a training apartment on-site, specialists taught Darnes how to navigate daily life using touch, sound, bump dots, and his remaining senses.

— La'Tasha Givens, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
Each step sends a ripple through the spongy, thin mat, a slow undulating motion beneath your feet that surprises the senses, disorienting yet simultaneously strangely delightful.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of senses

Verb

Price optimization means choosing prices that advance business goals, such as increasing profits, attracting shoppers or clearing unsold goods.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
This defense needs to find a way to make quarterbacks uncomfortable without becoming blitz crazy, and that means Chop Robinson, Josh Uche and Malik Herring must step up and win more of their 1-on-1 assignments.

— Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of means

Noun

Many state wiretap and eavesdropping laws are written around whether a private communication was intercepted or its contents were acquired — not simply whether a conventional audio recording was created.

— MacKenzie Sigalos,Annie Palmer, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2026
In late September, video showed Wang going through the victim’s desk before picking up his coffee tin, opening and inspecting its contents, the police affidavit said.

— Eduardo Cuevas, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of contents

Verb

The single-seat aircraft weighs about 253 pounds with batteries and includes a ballistic parachute and an automatic landing function.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2026
California weighs factors like time spent in the state and business ties when deciding who counts as a resident.

— Sydney Lake, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of weighs

Verb

The finding implies that methanol masers are a common product of all planet-forming discs and therefore are produced by processes that are universal in star- and planet-birth, regardless of the protostar's mass.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Oct. 2026
This implies demand of roughly 120 million metric tons per year of green ammonia by mid-century.

— Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of implies

Noun

The expression has different meanings across cultures, rarely referring to its literal translation.

— Annika Pham, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
Carlson’s essay offers a deeper look at the elaborate symbolic language surrounding 22, A Million, including the meanings behind the album’s unusual song titles and iconography.

— SPIN Staff, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of meanings

Verb

Part of what Myha’la’s wink signifies is how much Celebrity Traitors UK is about, well, being a celebrity.

— Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2026
The appointment signifies a new chapter for Zankov, formalizing a partnership that has already played a pivotal role in the development of his business over the past two years.

— Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026

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