triage

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Local residents were “circling the school, trying to protect the students. It is like I am doing emotional triage on some type of battlefield, right here in my own city,” she explained.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

"We cannot possibly conserve everything, so we have to triage and decide how to allocate limited resources towards what we think are the highest priorities," Chan said.

From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026

“It was like triage in a war zone, except it was on Bondi Beach,” Ostrovsky said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

Of all the charities that emerged in the chaos and triage of January’s fires, none captured popular attention like Altadena Girls.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025

Farmer has constructed his life around this second kind of triage.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French