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triage

[tree-ahzh] / triˈɑʒ /
VERB
pay immediate attention to particular priorities
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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

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

One of the immediate actions being urged on maternity units is to overhaul their triage service, which Baroness Amos described as "increasingly becoming the A&E service for maternity".

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

It added that the prolonged failure to triage referrals properly created a clear risk that urgent cases, including cancer cases, would not be identified or escalated in time.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 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

Scans showing a high-cancer risk will be triaged as priority review for a radiologist and patients will be booked for a same-day biopsy.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2025

The coroner said Ms Rublite was appropriately triaged by a nurse on attendance to the emergency department.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2024

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

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

Higher-order organisms have developed a way of triaging that information, selecting what is relevant to our safety and our survival, and making instant decisions about how to allocate our resources and our attention.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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

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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