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triage

[tree-ahzh] / triˈɑʒ /
VERB
pay immediate attention to particular priorities
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The review found "recurrent and systemic weaknesses in the management of high-risk pregnancy, foetal surveillance, maternity triage, escalation and organisational learning", documents said.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

AI is increasingly absorbing repetitive, lower-level tasks such as alert triage, log review and data enrichment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

The Los Angeles water system is so old — and money for replacements is exceedingly scarce — that officials are left playing a dangerous game of triage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

A new triage tool will ask patients a series of questions, and will use the responses to direct them to a GP appointment, pharmacy, A&E, community service or offer self-care advice.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

In peacetime, however, in a well-staffed, well-stocked American emergency room, triage isn’t about withholding care from anyone; rather, it’s identifying the patients in the gravest danger and treating them first.

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

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

He triages each based on how solvable they are.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 10, 2015

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

He said he had asked that it examined both how information is triaged and the communications strategy the force deployed in response to the event.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

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

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 have a lot of resources in that area, and they’re triaging the best they can,” an operations team member replied.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 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

“Our teams are assisting in triaging emergency cases and managing stabilized patients admitted in the medical tents,” MSF said on X, formerly known as Twitter.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 12, 2023

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

From Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow



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