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Recent Examples of noncritical
Sunday through Tuesday are expected to have noncritical fire danger.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for noncritical
Adjective
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Those tests that pick up most cancers tend to pick up other unimportant things as well — and those screening tests that are limited to discovering cancer often miss many people with the disease.—
Cory Franklin,
Twin Cities,
14 Sep. 2025
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After Princeton and military service, he was sent to the Paris bureau, where his scoops and reviews forced designers to alter their view of Women’s Wear Daily as unimportant.—
James Fallon,
Footwear News,
10 Sep. 2025
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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
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Prioritizing essentials, postponing nonurgent purchases and choosing local alternatives can help manage higher costs.—
Magdy Hassan Fayed,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
Adjective
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Supplying immune protection Immune protection is an additional and non-trivial requirement.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Sep. 2025
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Reducing the volume of trivial interactions accelerates real decision-making moments, capturing credibility and executive loyalty.—
Jason Phillips,
USA Today,
24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Meanwhile, a tropical wave near Hispaniola, Turks and Caicos and eastern Cuba is expected to move closer to the Bahamas, with an associated low-pressure area forming into a tropical depression.—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
26 Sep. 2025
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An unseasonably strong low-pressure system that lingered off the Southern California coast all week is now sliding inland, funneling moisture and atmospheric instability across Arizona.—
Arizona Republic,
AZCentral.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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There’s only a slight chance of minor solar storms before activity settles down again.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
29 Sep. 2025
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In retrospect, an extra rehab start in the minors in July might have prevented his minor-league starts in September.—
Tim Britton,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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The leg to leg contact is incidental once the ball is clearly loose.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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Food was incidental at first, but by the mid-20th century, eating had become the main attraction.—
Clarissa Wei,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Sep. 2025
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Finally, some vacuums use small leaf bags that can make the time savings negligible.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
26 Sep. 2025
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The caveat is that the amount of recycled cotton remains negligible Fourteen brands—including G-Star, Disel, Amazon, C&A and others—include 1 to 4 percent of recycled cotton in their operations.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Noncritical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noncritical. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.
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