noncritical

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Recent Examples of noncritical Sunday through Tuesday are expected to have noncritical fire danger. Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025 The victim was taken to the hospital in noncritical condition. Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2025 If ransomware infiltrates a segment containing noncritical systems, the damage remains localized. Sameer Malhotra, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025 The plan would leave noncritical supply chains open initially, while setting a longer-term decoupling process into motion through two policy pathways. Eyck Freymann, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for noncritical
Recent Examples of Synonyms for noncritical
Adjective
  • Mike Vrabel says his history there is unimportant.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 16 Oct. 2025
  • That may seem like a small and unimportant distinction to the non-Macca-heads among us.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The West Virginia Legislature passed bills in both 2019 and 2023 requiring insurers to respond to nonurgent authorization requests within five days and more urgent requests within two days, among other mandates.
    Lauren Sausser, Miami Herald, 16 June 2025
  • Prioritizing essentials, postponing nonurgent purchases and choosing local alternatives can help manage higher costs.
    Magdy Hassan Fayed, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
Adjective
  • Maybe autocracy starts with something as trivial as this.
    John M. Crisp, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The trivial things become the big things because the big things have gone away.
    Essence, Essence, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • An upper-level low-pressure system is moving through the region, sending moisture and windy conditions to south-central Arizona.
    Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • However, another low-pressure system will follow it throughout the day, causing a strong, gale-force front to impact the panhandle through Tuesday afternoon.
    Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Curing or drying potatoes thickens their skins, allows minor cuts and abrasions to heal, and makes spuds less likely to rot or shrivel in storage.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Prisoners are not allowed to keep money behind bars, but cash can be provided by family members to a commissary fund used to buy food, toiletries and other minor needs, according to the Prison Fellowship.
    Mark Price, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • And, those costs are not always incidental, particularly with pickups.
    Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Gestures, colloquialisms, facial expressions, local cuisine, and the like are not incidental to a tongue but constitute it; sometimes, to capture a word or phrase, in writing or in an algorithm, is to stamp out its meaning.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In addition to the streaming jump, D’Angelo’s song catalog sold 9,000 digital track downloads for the week, up from a negligible amount in the previous week.
    Trevor Anderson, Billboard, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The highest draft picks haven’t made an impact, and receiver production has been negligible.
    Tim Graham, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Noncritical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noncritical. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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