top-priority

Example Sentences

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My writing went faster because I started the week focused on my top-priority project, instead of fracturing my attention with emails and calls.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

But her request was not deemed as a top-priority job, which she learned about in an email from the city’s Safe Sidewalks L.A. program.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2024

That’s disturbing news, given the decades-long trend of NASA’s top-priority missions ballooning in cost and wreaking havoc elsewhere in the space agency’s science budget.

From Scientific American • May 9, 2023

For older people, she says, strength training, which helps with balance, is the top-priority exercise because it makes other forms of activity possible.

From Washington Post • Feb. 20, 2023

"I'm in charge of personnel, here; that makes me his top-priority target, all the time."

From Day of the Moron by Piper, H. Beam