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Etymologies
- Latin significāns, significant-, present participle of significāre, to signify; see signify.
Examples
“Even, our next-door American neighbours have stopped visiting in signficant numbers.”
“There was a real, signficant opposition from the officer class as well.”
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“The original estimate may be too great, officials now say, though Drug Enforcement Administration raid reports show a signficant increase in the number of plants seized in California -- from 1.2 million in 2003 to 7.5 million last year.”
“We have got a national presence with a web platform and you are going to see us make a much more signficant impact in the coming months.”
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“I think it will have signficant influence on the development of democratized "literary culture," arguably even more influence than criticism now has on print-centered literary culture, since an infrastucture of critblogs already exists and already focuses its attention more widely on marginalized books and presses than print book reviews ever did.”
“When the Aurora Election Commission was formed, the vast majority of residents lived in Kane County, but in today's situation, a signficant portion of the city does not even use the election commission.”
“We have lost a signficant part of our taxbase to Maryland and the District," said Biddle, arguing it was unacceptable that 72 percent of city employees live outside the District.”
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“Lawyers for Facebook Inc. say they have unearthed "smoking-gun documents" that debunk the claims of a New York man that he is entitled to a signficant ownership stake in the social-networking service.”
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“It is very easy for the arctic ice cap to experience signficant changes in its size and thickness and bounce back very quickly, within a few years (as it would appear the arctic is doing right now) and the melting of an ice cap, such as in Greenland or Antartica, which is miles thick and which can raise sea level dramatically.”
“As Adarand held that strict scrutiny must be applied to federal affirmative action programs — and strict scrutiny is what has led to the invalidation of quotas and set-aside programs — this is a signficant omission.”
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