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
Israel prepared for 'boos' Eurovision has long strived to prioritize artistry over political antagonism.
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Chloe Veltman, NPR, 16 May 2026
Design choices that prioritize style alone can overlook how your needs may change over time, especially regarding safety, comfort, and ease of movement.
—Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 16 May 2026
There’s another one that’s prioritizing families.
—Torie Bosch, STAT, 16 May 2026
In this week's newsletter for her Substack Beau Society, the actress, 29, shared some of the things she's been prioritizing since welcoming her baby back in April.
—Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
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Chloe Veltman, NPR, 16 May 2026
Design choices that prioritize style alone can overlook how your needs may change over time, especially regarding safety, comfort, and ease of movement.
—Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 16 May 2026
There’s another one that’s prioritizing families.
—Torie Bosch, STAT, 16 May 2026
In this week's newsletter for her Substack Beau Society, the actress, 29, shared some of the things she's been prioritizing since welcoming her baby back in April.
—Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prioritize
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This means recording transactions, categorizing expenses and calculating totals yourself, without linking your bank accounts to an app.—
Nick Perry,
USA Today,
11 May 2026
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The Western musical tradition is mostly sidelined in favor of kuduro, gqom, batida, and sounds too free of familiar musical idioms to be easily categorized.—
Will Lynch,
Pitchfork,
11 May 2026
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Her team quickly put together a plan to help coördinate repairs, secure new electrical generators, implement a triage system, and organize trainings for staff.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
15 May 2026
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Certain lower-risk administrative technologies are expressly excluded, including spreadsheets requiring human analysis, workflow management and routing tools, and systems that simply organize or summarize information without generating predictions or inferences.—
Alonzo Martinez,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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That work started with simply observing individual stars and sorting them into categories—just like scientists finally have the technology to do with exoplanets today.—
K. R. Callaway,
Scientific American,
11 May 2026
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This desk once stood in the Ten Mile post office, where it was used to sort the mail.—
Sarah Lyon,
Southern Living,
11 May 2026
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Another pair of wins from KPop Demon Hunters, which are attached to the evil boy band Saja Boys, cracked the top 10 as well, and several members – the group is made up of Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo and Samuil Lee – are usually classified as K-pop artists.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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Final thoughts For context, my backyard sky falls somewhere between 7 and 8 on the Bortle scale, a nine-level system used by astronomers to classify the brightness of the night sky and the impact of light pollution.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
15 May 2026
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Passengers who are still onboard have been taking isolation precautions to try to prevent further spread, but Kell says researchers will want to gather samples of the virus from the ship in order to sequence them.—
Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
6 May 2026
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Venter worked with Nobel laureate Hamilton Smith to sequence the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae, which resulted in a new vaccine for ear infections and is helping scientists understand how pathogens evolve.—
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
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In the old system, the administrator found an incident report from April 30, 2002, filed by an officer named Darrell Mayhew, who had found Djena by herself in the park near the Toures’ residence.—
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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Osment filed for divorce on March 7, 2025, citing irreconcilable differences.—
Jane LaCroix,
PEOPLE,
17 May 2026
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“Prioritize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prioritize. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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