triage
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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 hospital hiring triage nurses, for example, could have candidates put on headsets that transport them to a simulated disaster site to see how they figure out who imminently needs attention.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and others also offer cheaper versions of their flagship models, and Factory and others have developed systems to help companies triage queries and steer some tasks to cheaper options.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 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
Farmer has constructed his life around this second kind of triage.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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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
It is understood the 39-year-old, who was triaged on arrival complaining of a headache, waited for more than seven hours to be seen by a doctor.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 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
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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
After landing at a cousin’s place in Long Beach, she began triaging: calling congregants, ensuring they made it out and finding a landing spot for the church in the immediate aftermath.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2025
One episode of 1990s BBC series Cardiac Arrest opens in a hectic triaging unit.
From BBC ● May 15, 2025
They say state-of-the-art large language models like GPT-4 could be useful for providing eye-related advice, diagnosis, and management suggestions in well-controlled contexts, like triaging patients, or where access to specialist healthcare professionals is limited.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2024
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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