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chrisweekly on June 14, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: An Omega-3 that’s poison for cancer tumors

"imperious": arrogant, domineering

Did you mean "important"?

(My aim is to be helpful given the many non-native English speakers on HN.)

gnrlst on June 14, 2021 [–]

I think OP meant: imperative

adrian_b on June 14, 2021 | [–]

Yes, indeed, you are right.

However, I have encountered a lot of uses of "imperious" instead of "imperative", coming from native speakers, which is why I happened to make this choice of words, which is not the right one.

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