nonurgent

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Recent Examples of nonurgent Prioritizing essentials, postponing nonurgent purchases and choosing local alternatives can help manage higher costs. 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 See All Example Sentences for nonurgent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonurgent
Adjective
  • SLOs focus teams on what truly impacts reliability, reduce noise from noncritical issues, and create clear priorities—improving system stability without overloading engineering teams.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • One victim remains in critical condition and another sustained noncritical injuries, and a fourth person was hurt while trying to leave the home, the news station reported.
    Francie Ebert, NBC news, 3 May 2026
Adjective
  • The postmortem highlighted nearly two dozen laws that the city attorney’s office identified as affecting Meridian city business, some requiring minor tweaks to standard practices and others necessitating city-code overhauls.
    Rose Evans June 6, Idaho Statesman, 6 June 2026
  • His identity is not being made public after Roach issued an order on Friday barring public identification of any minor witnesses.
    Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 6 June 2026
Adjective
  • The survey said this does not mean technical skills are unimportant, but that employers value the capacity to learn, adapt and collaborate at least as much as any specific technical competency.
    Jessica Alvarado Gamez, Denver Post, 27 May 2026
  • There’s no unimportant royal gossip, apparently.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 5 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • When a mysterious man in a Hawaiian shirt (Joseph Tudisco) comes up behind Ron brandishing a pipe, the show’s right to take its mood so seriously — even about something as potentially trivial as chairs, and even about a protagonist as potentially trivial as Ron.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 9 June 2026
  • That breadth of integration is not trivial.
    David Chou, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Adjective
  • Kevin Byard and Craig Woodson led the safeties, as expected, followed by Dell Pettus, who was involved in an incidental collision at the end of one completion.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 9 June 2026
  • The parks themselves aren’t incidental; there are more than 2,000 across the city.
    Alli Forde, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2026

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“Nonurgent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonurgent. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.

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