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triage

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

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

Nearby buildings have been evacuated, and multiple ambulances and a triage area are set up in case of any injuries.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 3, 2026

He said Target’s turnaround appeared to be working, but that it needed to “move on from triage to full-scale growth.”

From MarketWatch May 20, 2026

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

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

But the BMA says patients are being put at risk because urgent requests are not being triaged and practices are overwhelmed.

From BBC Dec. 3, 2025

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

Washington State Ferries triaged the issue by ranking routes in order of importance — some combination of total ridership and significance to the community.

From Seattle Times Mar. 1, 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

A triaging system meant to house the most needy forced housing providers to deal with more burdensome tenants.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 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

“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 Doctorow, Cory



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