nonurgent

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Recent Examples of nonurgent Canada's system ensures equitable access and lower costs but is often criticized for longer wait times for nonurgent procedures. Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024 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 The urge to pursue your pleasures will be all but impossible to ignore, so feel free to leave less exciting nonurgent tasks for another time. Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for nonurgent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonurgent
Adjective
  • Choose a noncritical system (like a training or test server), and deploy a basic AI security agent there.
    Saurav Bhattacharya, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The other four shooting victims are in noncritical condition.
    Raven Brunner, People.com, 20 July 2025
Adjective
  • There’s only a slight chance of minor solar storms before activity settles down again.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • For Washington, this was no trivial matter.
    Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Afterward, a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) investigation concluded that the economic impact was small, but not trivial.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The leg to leg contact is incidental once the ball is clearly loose.
    Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025
  • 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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“Nonurgent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonurgent. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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