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You can still import the private key if you like, using importprivkey, and it will effectively "upgrade" the address in the wallet from a watch-only address to an owned address.
Alternatively you can build and sign transactions for this address without ever importing the private key into the wallet – please see this tutorial: https://www.multichain.com/developers/external-key-management/