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triage

[tree-ahzh] / triˈɑʒ /
VERB
pay immediate attention to particular priorities
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As Karen and I triage our possessions, I have discovered the joys of life in a tidy house.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 8, 2026

He then explained that by swiping left, calls are placed in the stack requiring further triage by a nurse or paramedic, but a swipe right means they're in the wait for an ambulance.

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

They made it to a nearby clinic, San Antonio de Catia La Mar, where the besieged staff was implementing emergency triage, prioritizing those with life-threatening conditions.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 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

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

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

If the animal can be triaged nearby and stabilized, Rulli said, rescuers try to transport them to the institute’s hospital in Sausalito.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 2, 2024

Diaz acknowledged the shift will mean it will take longer to investigate property crimes like car prowls and burglaries and cases will need to be triaged.

From Seattle Times Jun. 16, 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

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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