as in meant
to be of importance
she believes that doing well in school really does matter
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Recent Examples of mattered
Regular check-ins, open feedback loops and sharing success stories kept energy high and reminded everyone why the effort mattered.
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Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
All that mattered was the affront to the king.
—Óscar Martínez & Carlos Martínez, The Dial, 16 Sep. 2025
If only that mattered in the end.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 15 Sep. 2025
Other kids, whose opinions mattered most, were not impressed.
—Rachel Kushner, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
It’s been several years since a September Red Sox/Yankees series mattered as much as this one.
—Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
Even for a billionaire who was in the comparatively low-budget dictionary business less for profit than for fun, the bottom line mattered, and the pressure to make money and cut costs was inescapable.
—Stefan Fatsis, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2025
Yet that hardly mattered, since what was forming was a community that the players now liken to the artists and writers of Paris in the ’20s.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Sep. 2025
None of that mattered to the Mission Bay defense.
—Clark Fahrenthold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
All that mattered was the affront to the king.
—Óscar Martínez & Carlos Martínez, The Dial, 16 Sep. 2025
If only that mattered in the end.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 15 Sep. 2025
Other kids, whose opinions mattered most, were not impressed.
—Rachel Kushner, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
It’s been several years since a September Red Sox/Yankees series mattered as much as this one.
—Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
Even for a billionaire who was in the comparatively low-budget dictionary business less for profit than for fun, the bottom line mattered, and the pressure to make money and cut costs was inescapable.
—Stefan Fatsis, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2025
Yet that hardly mattered, since what was forming was a community that the players now liken to the artists and writers of Paris in the ’20s.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Sep. 2025
None of that mattered to the Mission Bay defense.
—Clark Fahrenthold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mattered
Verb
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If all this rulemaking simply meant lower water usage, consumers would likely cheer at the lower water bills.—
Jeremy Lott,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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It was meant to show how the history of human evolution arises from our literary relationship to the earth.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Monica Di Giacomo weighed 320 pounds and no trainer would take her on.—
Laura Trujillo,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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Harris briefly weighed a run for governor of California before ruling it out in July, leaving open the possibility of another presidential campaign in 2028.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Mattered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mattered. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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