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mattering

verb

present participle of matter

as in weighing

to be of importance she believes that doing well in school really does matter

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Recent Examples of mattering But those friendships don’t stop mattering when the school day ends, especially when group chats and social media keep everyone connected. — Ashley Lynch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Oct. 2026 Trust ends up mattering more than uptime in deciding which platforms get automated against, and which get left out. — Barry Bernstein, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026 Sai’Vion Jones is a third-round pick from 2025, and maybe that ends up mattering here, but Jackson’s a better player at this stage. — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2026 My dad never chased the kind of mattering that consumed me and so many of my peers. — Matthew Emerzian, PEOPLE, 21 June 2026 In the end, none of these delays may end up mattering. — Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026 And so my surreal day-to-day, a regular life broken up by suspensions of my rights, stopped mattering. — Abraham Jiménez Enoa, The Dial, 19 May 2026 For many drivers, that's a big deal, Valdez Streaty says, with fuel savings mattering more at a time when car prices are sharply up. — Mike Winters, CNBC, 19 May 2026 Lajos’s transparent skin, initially so intriguing, does not end up mattering or meaning anything. — Literary Hub, 1 May 2026

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With resurgent inflation and traders weighing the Fed's next move, any signal on the rate path could ripple through the equities, bond and currency markets.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026
For someone weighing a move, uncertainty raises the stakes, and a longer list of openings offers little reassurance that the next job will be a better match.

— Owen Humphries, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026

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Stan’s dad, Randy (who is now the size of his son after going to Sephora and thus is forced to enroll back in school) does beat up Ike’s opponent, though, meaning his looksmaxxed face is no longer.

— Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
The Vatican has now said that those tests included a robotic bronchoscopic biopsy, meaning doctors had already taken tissue samples to assess whether the mass was cancerous.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026

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