PRIORITIZE Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

prioritize

verb

Definition of prioritize

as in to categorize

to put in order based on importance We prioritized the hardest parts of the project before the easier ones.

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Recent Examples of prioritize For homeowners planning a refresh, lighting is the single highest-impact upgrade for the money, so prioritize it over new furniture if the budget is tight. — Lauren Schuster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Oct. 2026 The Eagles might be depicted as having prioritized playing Hurts over his health. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 26 Oct. 2026 The Substack team fends off acquisition offers from Jack Dorsey’s Twitter and Musk’s X, choosing to prioritize their independence. — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026 The bill’s supporters said judges should prioritize public safety when deciding whether to release defendants. — Wendi C. Thomas, ProPublica, 26 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for prioritize

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Verb

With this much space, the entire region can’t be categorized in any one specific way—except with the word dramatic.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Oct. 2026
Images get treated and categorized one way; PDFs another; text notes another.

— David Pierce, The Verge, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of categorize

Verb

Eire serves on the advisory board for the Disclosure Foundation, a nonprofit that organized the event and is dedicated to transparency around unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) and aliens.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2026
On February 9, 1934, the French Communist Party organized a march to the Place de la République as a counter-protest to fascist riots, an action that helped lay the groundwork for the alliance of left-wing parties known as the Popular Front.

— Maurice Samuels, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of organize

Verb

Focus on sorting what's piled up around your desk or dining table.

— Andee Tagle, NPR, 29 Oct. 2026
To Turner’s point about actual data, two state landfill audits, in which crews sorted and weighed real trash, put Californians’ 2023 single-use plastic use at about 3 million tons.

— Susanne Rust Follow, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of sort

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In an April 2026 live-fire exercise at Fort Hood, Texas, the Army demonstrated an autonomous sensor on one platform that detected and classified a hostile drone, then passed data and an engagement command to a weapon system on another platform.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026
Trump also classified Brazil’s biggest drug-trafficking groups as foreign terrorist organizations shortly after receiving Bolsonaro at the White House — a move Lula’s administration opposed as a pretext for intervention.

— Eléonore Hughes, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of classify

Verb

In reality though, every genome analysis is influenced by multiple of factors, such as the reference genome used for comparison and the technology used to sequence the DNA itself.

— Euan Ashley, STAT, 1 Oct. 2026
Scientists can sequence a genome, but understanding environmental impacts requires psychologists to follow thousands of people for decades.

— Jessica Craig, Popular Science, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of sequence

Verb

Customers filed lawsuits alleging Bacelar was buying dogs on the cheap from breeders, then misrepresenting them as rescues and charging high adoption fees, The Times reported.

— Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
Kate Whiteman, the woman who first filed a lawsuit against the men, died in late 2025 at age 45 in Australia.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026

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