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triage

[tree-ahzh] / triˈɑʒ /
VERB
pay immediate attention to particular priorities
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Most companies are getting better at patching critical bugs, but AI is driving up the sheer volume of reported bugs and patching everything is taking longer, according to HackerOne, which helps companies triage bug reports.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Local residents were “circling the school, trying to protect the students. It is like I am doing emotional triage on some type of battlefield, right here in my own city,” she explained.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

The report states it is planning for 90,720 patient slots a year across its three proposed sites in Aberdeen, Elgin and Peterhead, where eight GPs and three triage nurses will be among the staff hired.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

"Our model can automate that process, triage the routine cases, and highlight anything unusual for human review."

From Science Daily • Jan. 13, 2026

One of the engineers on the base kept bringing Vietnamese children into triage who needed treatment.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge



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