significant role
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsignificantandrole
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significant
adjective
uk/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt/us/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kənt/
important ...
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role
noun[C]
uk/rəʊl/us/roʊl/
the position or purpose that someone or something has in a situation, organization, society, ...
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(Definition ofsignificantandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsignificant role
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Therefore, diagnostics and prognostics play asignificantrolein this paradigm shift.
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Likewise, we have a potentiallysignificantroleto play in analyzing gender and democratization, including the role of women in the region's democratic transitions.
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These results suggested that visual feedback could play asignificantrolein reducing illusion effects on action.
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Results indicate that reactivity does not play asignificantrolein learners' subsequent performances.
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However, as local tumour control improves, approaches that prevent secondary or delayed metastasis may play asignificantrolein cancer therapy.
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For example, public servants rather than politicians played a moresignificantrolein shaping the executive agencies, bearing out the bureau-shaping model.
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During the 1920s, as trade unions struggled to form, jobbers often played asignificantrolein them.
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The activation of the sympathetic nervous system appears to play asignificantrolein the regulation of tryptophan availability to the brain.
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Even small contributions can play asignificantrolein maintaining family solidarity and the elders' social status.
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Clearly, teacher educators know the meaning of multiculturalism and believe that it should play a moresignificantrolein colleges of education.
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Thus limited, social capital may have asignificantrolein development and may help multiply the collective return on resources invested for this purpose.
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On the other hand, they suggest which factors should not play asignificantrolein determining formation durations.
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Collective action can play asignificantrolein sustainable management of common grazing lands through restricting access and regulating use.
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Second, advocates generally reject anysignificantrolefor government in regulating or financing health care.
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It is thus natural to expect our quantum dynamic logic to play asignificantrolein the formal verification of quantum programs.
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Although the evidence is incomplete, there is little doubt that transposable elements, and hobo in particular, play asignificantrolein chromosome evolution.
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Besides other parameters, the ripple dynamics and magnetic field play asignificantrolefor scattered power.
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