Synonyms for Important: What to Say Instead, and When Each Word Fits

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I once edited a report where the word important appeared eleven times in two pages. Important meeting, important decision, important client, important result. That is the real problem with important: it is so useful that we lean on it for everything, and then it tells the reader almost nothing. A manager I worked with did … Read more