How to Use consequential in a Sentence

consequential

adjective
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  • The change to the schedule is not consequential.
  • There have been several consequential innovations in their computer software.
  • From her own telling this was the most consequential year of her life.
    — Town & Country, 10 Apr. 2023
  • That was the lesson that emerged from interviews with some of the most consequential leaders in their fields in the world.
    — Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The decision whether or not to have a child is one of the most consequential choices most people make.
    — Clare Egan, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The current high court is no stranger to consequential rulings.
    — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The planet is burning, but the truth is these things were always consequential.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 7 June 2023
  • But the case has the potential to be highly consequential.
    — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 5 Feb. 2024
  • If her push pays off, Khan could become one of the most consequential FTC chairs in history.
    — Brian Fung, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Wisconsin voters head to the polls Tuesday to elect their next state Supreme Court justice in what could be the most consequential race of 2023.
    — Sarah Ewall-Wice, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2023
  • In one of the more consequential cases, activists have thus far prevailed.
    — Gaiutra Bahadur Keisha Scarville, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Throughout his decades in the field, Borst’s research has been consequential in a number of areas.
    — Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The 2023 season might be the most promising (and consequential) of Jackson’s career.
    — Jimmy Watkins, cleveland, 19 July 2023
  • This much is certain: Whoever the Chiefs do decide to pay looms as the most consequential storyline of the next few weeks.
    — Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 20 Feb. 2024
  • But for those with sleep disorders, like Shand, the effects may be even more consequential.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Most importantly, though, Porter corrects the record about one of the most consequential first ladies of the 20th century.
    — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • For such a consequential update, Apple will march forth on March 4th.
    — David Phelan, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The most consequential first lady of modern times was Melania Trump.
    — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Indeed, Hans does have secrets that are meted out throughout the book, though the most consequential is kept until the epilogue.
    — Cory Oldweiler, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
  • The more consequential issues are locking in their media rights until 2036 and sending their Olympic sports back and forth across the country.
    — Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Perhaps the most consequential part of the day will be Powell’s news conference at 2:30 p.m. Eastern.
    — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
  • If Season 1 of Winning Time was the party, then Season 2 is the consequential hangover.
    — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The study adds to the evidence that small changes in diet can be consequential, and that a diet that's good for our health is also good for the environment.
    — Allison Aubrey, NPR, 3 Mar. 2024
  • What follows will be the most consequential moment of the season, Tuesday’s play-in game against the visiting Atlanta Hawks at 7:30 p.m.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2023
  • The election for the Assembly of Experts could prove consequential, given its role in naming the next supreme leader.
    — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • This is Fontana’s fourth writers strike: the least consequential to his own well-being, perhaps, and yet the most important to his profession.
    — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • In the end, though, the members of the committee that voted on the Anthropocene over the past month were not only weighing how consequential this period had been for the planet.
    — Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The two most consequential innovations in the tape player, however, were the boom box and the Sony Walkman personal stereo.
    — Jon Michaud, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The third highlight of the auction is an 1850 copy of the novel that Hawthorne sent to George Mullet, who turned out to be a consequential figure in American literature.
    — Ted Scheinman, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2023
  • This election was one of the first consequential votes to take place after the EU’s digital services act was introduced in August.
    — WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023

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