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
  • Soundside flooding with minor impacts are anticipated later today through at least Wednesday.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Conley likens the hours following a playoff exit to the immediate aftermath of a minor car accident.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • That may seem like a small and unimportant distinction to the non-Macca-heads among us.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • What looked trivial was, in fact, the system at work.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Eckert’s ultimate victory in securing regulatory approval for Addyi underpins the documentary’s revelations about gender bias at the FDA as a drug that claimed to improve female pleasure was dismissed as trivial or even dangerous.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals previously ruled that Chiles’s therapy taking the form of speech is incidental and that what is really being regulated is her professional conduct.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Colorado, however, insists that the statute regulates medical conduct, which is not protected by the First Amendment, even if there is an incidental burden on speech.
    Timothy R. Holbrook, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Nonurgent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonurgent. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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