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Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of matter.
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French matere, from Latin māteria, wood, timber, matter, from māter, mother (because the woody part was seen as the source of growth); see māter- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“The Internet will become more-and-more sensationalised with the only thing mattering is page views and not the niche value of your content.”
“In the case of vanilla, chocolate, and Earl Grey, I think what ends up mattering is how the tea tastes after all that.”
“In some ways, this confirms our own existence, because most of our mattering is in the context of one another.”
“People were understandably excited by the idea of mattering to someone in a place that -- let's face it -- doesn't matter to most.”
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“At that level, "mattering" and "not mattering" seem to mean the same thing, I think.”
“He very much matters, however, in both the public and personal senses of popes "mattering"; one just has to look closer and deeper to discern the imprint of the shoes of this fisherman.”
“Because value or 'mattering' is not a fixed property, it is defined by those who use it.”
“If they are shown as "mattering" as much as they could possibly pretend to, the proof of it is in a hundred other persons, made of much stouter stuff; and each involved moreover in a hundred relations which matter to THEM concomitantly with that one.”
“But that has nothing to do with the vacuous analysis of "mattering".”
“(and he remains a strange case, since the charisma of the performer remains real when we are talking about "mattering" in this social sense) you can find them all on a single song from”
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