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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
matter .
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Examples
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Perhaps he had believed that a name mattered little when the life expectancy was short.
The Juniper Days – Part III Alison Earls 2011
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Rather than make a self-deprecating joke, he opted instead to make a self-inflating one, as if to say that the title mattered less than the man.
latimes.com - News 2010
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I obsessed about the smallest detail—even telling myself that the smoothness of a word mattered; the smooth flow of letters when joined, with letters always slanting slightly to the right.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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I obsessed about the smallest detail—even telling myself that the smoothness of a word mattered; the smooth flow of letters when joined, with letters always slanting slightly to the right.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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I obsessed about the smallest detail—even telling myself that the smoothness of a word mattered; the smooth flow of letters when joined, with letters always slanting slightly to the right.
Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011
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The ONLY question that matters or should have mattered is whether or not the teacher broke the law.
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The ONLY question that matters or should have mattered is whether or not the teacher broke the law.
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Plinius, your point that many people talk about their votes as if they mattered is well taken.
Is Jeffrey Friedman Ignorant?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It was night on the planet down below, not that in mattered the sky was so thick with smoke and haze from the fighting that the sun was permanently blocked.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Why this mattered is because there was a strong Northern push to abolish slavery: part humanitarian, part political calculation to redirect Northern worker anti-immigration angst away from the political dead-end of nativism, and part claim over Western resources.
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