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 Why are the Heat prioritizing a player who’s obviously lost it? — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2026 But William has the monarch’s permission to prioritize his young family. — Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2026 Poles that require reinforcement or replacement are prioritized for follow-up work. — Tara Molina, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026 Instead of assuming where energy is being lost, today’s high-performance contractors can pinpoint inefficiencies and prioritize improvements that deliver the greatest return on investment. — Brynn Cooksey, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for prioritize

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Especially in a country like Japan, where learning can be quite rigid and everything is categorized or formatted.

— Kalai Chik, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Other tequilas, categorized as mixtos, only have to contain 51 percent agave, with the other 49 percent made from other sweeteners like cane sugar or high fructose corn syrup.

— Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of categorize

Verb

Store Craft Supplies Keep beads, paint brushes, and other craft supplies organized by storing them in their own upcycled candle jars with a small label if desired.

— Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 9 Aug. 2026
Draft the email, organize notes, or give yourself space to think before a professional conversation.

— Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of organize

Verb

This was some 50 pallets containing more than 150,000 pieces of athletic gear – 6,500 pairs of shoes alone – all of which had to be sorted by team and distributed across campus in less than a month.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
The uncertainties associated with each detector’s results come from the sorting process that physicists go through to identify geoneutrinos, Bayes said.

— James Dinneen, Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of sort

Verb

But the chief declined to classify the violence as gang-related at a community briefing on July 24, when reporters pressed her about whether the people involved belonged to rival gangs or families.

— Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2026
Many of the first big commercial systems, like AltaVista, Lycos, Excite, and HotBot, used crawlers and indexes to automatically map a growing web rather than relying on editors to hand-classify every site.

— Alan Bradley, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of classify

Verb

For years, the industry response to this tension was to sequence it away.

— Vishal Saxena, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Pontus Skoglund, a population geneticist who leads the Ancient Genomics laboratory at the institute, said the wider project to genetically sequence the remains of around 1,000 ancient individuals will help to advance our scientific understanding.

— Jack Guy, CNN Money, 17 July 2026

Definition of sequence

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Robert Carradine’s family has filed a lawsuit against the University of California, Los Angeles, alleging wrongful death and elder abuse.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Aug. 2026
As years turned to decades with no charges filed in Shakur's death, many observers thought the case would remain unsolved forever.

— Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026

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