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
  • The district has already implemented a spending freeze as of Oct. 1 that applies to all nonessential expenditures, including those related to travel, conferences, equipment purchases and new noncritical contracts.
    Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • After acquiring veteran pitcher Mitch Spence from the Athletics on Thursday, the Royals stayed busy Friday by signing lefty pitcher John Means to a minor-league deal.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 14 Feb. 2026
  • The driver, who was believed to have had a medical emergency prior to the accident, was transported to a local hospital with minor injuries.
    Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 14 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • Some people are surrounded by care and still feel chronically unimportant.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • One of the votes at issue was about a project in Bonin’s district that sailed through the council, with Price’s vote unimportant to the project’s outcome.
    James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • And what may be trivial to you may be important enough to Mamdani to not be changed.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • For Toyota to possibly cannibalize Tacoma performance for the sake of a new, likely lower-margin model seems trivial at best.
    Caleb Jacobs, The Drive, 5 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • But Snyder ruled that these problems were incidental to the work of enforcing the country’s immigration laws.
    Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Yet, incidental captures of these sharks still occur through passive fishing gear, which shows that even remote deep-sea habitats/animals are not entirely safe from human influence.
    Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026

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“Nonurgent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonurgent. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.

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