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triage

[tree-ahzh] / triˈɑʒ /
VERB
pay immediate attention to particular priorities
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Rankine’s new attempt at triage focuses on her long friendship with a person identified only as “the theorist.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

Thousands, and sometimes millions, of flaws can be uncovered by these models, posing a triage challenge.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 10, 2026

They say that their staff are helping to isolate and triage children arriving at hospitals where such measures are lacking.

From BBC May 27, 2026

He said Target’s turnaround appeared to be working, but that it needed to “move on from triage to full-scale growth.”

From MarketWatch May 20, 2026

My mom was there in triage on a gurney.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

The company developed a metric called “Mean Time to Adapt,” which measures how quickly an organization identifies, triages and fixes vulnerabilities once discovered.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 10, 2026

The team preps trees when possible ahead of advancing flames and triages those that have faced the fire.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 7, 2021

For every patient that telemedicine triages, avoiding the need for an in-person appointment, another slot is opened up for someone who may have needed it more.

From Slate Mar. 17, 2020

“Hope has sustained communities, very much like Thousand Oaks, through the exact same triages of mass shootings,” said Andy Fox, the city’s outgoing mayor.

From Washington Times Nov. 9, 2018

In the months following the shooting, university counselors provided more than 700 mental health triages, spoke to classes, visited survivors in the hospital, fielded 120 calls from parents and provided other services.

From Washington Post Apr. 13, 2012

Diaz triaged resources, cutting specialty units in favor of patrol.

From Seattle Times May 29, 2024

Maui County Fire Chief Brad Ventura at a news conference spoke of firefighting resources having to be triaged Tuesday to “what was most important at the time.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2023

"This is the only hospital still accepting injured and we're getting more every day. Some go into surgery, others get triaged, but the capacity is very low," he said.

From Reuters Apr. 19, 2023

They said there was a three-hour wait for patients to be triaged by the nurse.

From BBC Jan. 9, 2023

Many were triaged in the war zone and then treated at a military medical facility in Landstuhl, Germany, before being flown to the United States.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

They found that DeepSeek handled these tasks as well as Anthropic’s Sonnet and was good at email triaging in particular.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

“We recognized that we were triaging problems and just finding short-term solutions,” said Barberini.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 25, 2025

Stopping at the "twisted" frame of his bike to grab some medical supplies, Mr Vernon began triaging the stricken fans in the road, including some still trapped under the Ford Galaxy.

From BBC Dec. 14, 2025

A quick way to measure methane leaks is essential for triaging newly discovered UOWs, and also for efforts to plug known wells.

From Science Daily Dec. 4, 2024

The lightness he'd felt fled him, and he began the rotten business of triaging his in-box.

From Eastern Standard Tribe by Doctorow, Cory



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