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the right to one's attention before other things considered less important
the committee has decided to give your request priority, so you'll have a meeting early tomorrow morning
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Recent Examples of priorities
This is an unsustainable path if the state hopes to avoid cutting health, education and other priorities.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026
The team also gave Luna a series of initial instructions, including pre-launch priorities like hiring an employee to run the store’s day-to-day operations, deciding what the store should sell and ordering inventory.
—David Ingram, NBC news, 11 Apr. 2026
Their share of total cathode output consistently exceeded 70% through late 2025 and into the new year, marking a structural shift in manufacturing priorities.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 11 Apr. 2026
Audi’s vehicles are specifically designed around sportiness and design, with power and comfort top priorities for the brand.
—Marc D Grasso, Hartford Courant, 11 Apr. 2026
Foldesy said managing that stress requires balance—both between short- and long-term priorities and in how CEOs approach the role in their own lives.
—Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2026
The exhibition, then, offers a revealing look not only at Noguchi’s lifelong effort to build a more generous urban world, but also at New York itself—its priorities, its constraints, and its failures of imagination.
—Terry Nguyen, ARTnews.com, 10 Apr. 2026
Your priorities deserve resources, not leftover attention.
—Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 9 Apr. 2026
Spanberger said that immigration enforcement and law enforcement priorities, such as safety and security, weren’t aligned.
—Asher Notheis, The Washington Examiner, 9 Apr. 2026
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026
The team also gave Luna a series of initial instructions, including pre-launch priorities like hiring an employee to run the store’s day-to-day operations, deciding what the store should sell and ordering inventory.
—David Ingram, NBC news, 11 Apr. 2026
Their share of total cathode output consistently exceeded 70% through late 2025 and into the new year, marking a structural shift in manufacturing priorities.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 11 Apr. 2026
Audi’s vehicles are specifically designed around sportiness and design, with power and comfort top priorities for the brand.
—Marc D Grasso, Hartford Courant, 11 Apr. 2026
Foldesy said managing that stress requires balance—both between short- and long-term priorities and in how CEOs approach the role in their own lives.
—Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2026
The exhibition, then, offers a revealing look not only at Noguchi’s lifelong effort to build a more generous urban world, but also at New York itself—its priorities, its constraints, and its failures of imagination.
—Terry Nguyen, ARTnews.com, 10 Apr. 2026
Your priorities deserve resources, not leftover attention.
—Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 9 Apr. 2026
Spanberger said that immigration enforcement and law enforcement priorities, such as safety and security, weren’t aligned.
—Asher Notheis, The Washington Examiner, 9 Apr. 2026
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“Priorities.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/priorities. Accessed 17 Apr. 2026.
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