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Recent Examples of nonurgent
Prioritizing essentials, postponing nonurgent purchases and choosing local alternatives can help manage higher costs.
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Magdy Hassan Fayed, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
As a result, libraries, nonurgent health clinics and parks are closed.
—Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Prolotherapy does not cure any condition and is used as an elective (nonurgent) treatment.
—Alex Yampolsky, Verywell Health, 17 Oct. 2024
This crisis particularly affected those facilities that faced restrictions on nonurgent care.
—Len Wright, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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Magdy Hassan Fayed, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
As a result, libraries, nonurgent health clinics and parks are closed.
—Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Prolotherapy does not cure any condition and is used as an elective (nonurgent) treatment.
—Alex Yampolsky, Verywell Health, 17 Oct. 2024
This crisis particularly affected those facilities that faced restrictions on nonurgent care.
—Len Wright, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonurgent
Adjective
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Within about 25 minutes, all 14 patients — three critical and 11 noncritical patients — were in ambulances heading to hospitals or had already arrived, Mallon said.—
Nicole Villalpando,
Austin American Statesman,
7 Mar. 2026
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Some data center operators are beginning to invest in on-site generation, battery storage or shifting noncritical computing tasks to off-peak hours.—
Fortune,
Fortune,
26 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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There could be minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas, periods of heavy rain and thunderstorms, and urban and small stream flooding.—
Brandon Downs,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
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There is at least some truth that social media use may cause a minor rise in dopamine levels, but not in a way that resembles drugs or qualifies as addiction.—
William Proctor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
11 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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There’s no unimportant royal gossip, apparently.—
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
5 Apr. 2026
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If however, we were often criticized and made to feel unimportant, our self-talk may be more negative.—
Joy Harden Bradford,
AJC.com,
2 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Jones noted those were not trivial sums for working families of the era.—
Anna Alejo,
CBS News,
21 Apr. 2026
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The novel swings between the trivial and the dire, and in her bleakest moments Adora leans on the Stoics for guidance, thinking, C’mon, boys, don’t fail me now!—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Going by that definition, weed isn’t incidental so much as foundational.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
20 Apr. 2026
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But choices, however incidental, about what kinds of domestic arrangements are shown and not shown on hugely popular children’s programs must strike their audiences in some kind of way.—
Jean Garnett,
New Yorker,
18 Apr. 2026
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“Nonurgent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonurgent. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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