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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 prioritized
Supervisor Paloma Aguirre, who has prioritized expanding the county’s role in the sewage crisis, had pushed the measure to put more teeth, including funding, toward a multi-point plan supervisors passed earlier this year.
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Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2025
Panama, Honduras, and Ecuador have also prioritized shark habitats in their conservation planning.
—Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Students with disabilities whose families earn up to 500% of the federal poverty guidelines — $160,750 for a family of four — would be prioritized first.
—Lina Ruiz
september 8, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
This season could establish whether the Detroit Lions should have prioritized keeping Engstrand to replace Ben Johnson instead of hiring John Morton and letting Engstrand follow Aaron Glenn to the Jets.
—Mike Sando, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
When GenAI first captured widespread attention in 2023, smart companies built sustainable AI governance models, prioritized transparency and tackled employee displacement through reinvention rather than layoffs.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
For example, roles in transportation were likely to require autonomous driving skills, while maintenance positions prioritized robotics capabilities.
—Dylan Butts
shreya Ghosal, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025
Both Lebanon and Syria are emerging from devastating sectarian conflicts, foreign interference, and destruction at the hands of the Iranian regime and non-state actors who prioritized extremist ideology above all.
—semafor.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Leaders at Space Command prioritized military readiness.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 3 Sep. 2025
Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2025
Panama, Honduras, and Ecuador have also prioritized shark habitats in their conservation planning.
—Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Students with disabilities whose families earn up to 500% of the federal poverty guidelines — $160,750 for a family of four — would be prioritized first.
—Lina Ruiz
september 8, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
This season could establish whether the Detroit Lions should have prioritized keeping Engstrand to replace Ben Johnson instead of hiring John Morton and letting Engstrand follow Aaron Glenn to the Jets.
—Mike Sando, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
When GenAI first captured widespread attention in 2023, smart companies built sustainable AI governance models, prioritized transparency and tackled employee displacement through reinvention rather than layoffs.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
For example, roles in transportation were likely to require autonomous driving skills, while maintenance positions prioritized robotics capabilities.
—Dylan Butts
shreya Ghosal, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025
Both Lebanon and Syria are emerging from devastating sectarian conflicts, foreign interference, and destruction at the hands of the Iranian regime and non-state actors who prioritized extremist ideology above all.
—semafor.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Leaders at Space Command prioritized military readiness.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prioritized
Verb
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Often overlooked and also categorized with fetishism (also known as axilism), armpits are sensitive to both light and firm touch.—
Essence,
Essence,
11 Sep. 2025
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Landasoft emails show engineers frantically fixing a software bug to release hundreds of people categorized as high-risk.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
9 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), which has organized dozens of boats to sail to Gaza carrying humanitarian aid, said that one of its main vessels was targeted in a drone strike just after midnight local time on Tuesday while docked near the Tunisian capital.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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Attached to the appeal letter were nearly 200 pages of records organized by headings and numbers.—
Duaa Eldeib,
ProPublica,
10 Sep. 2025
Verb
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This cool temperature is an incentive that keeps the fish fresher before heading to the processing plant where they are sorted.—
Andrew Watman,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Bobba had sorted people with a Social Security number by age and found more than 12 million over 120 years old still listed in the agency’s data.—
Eli Hager,
ProPublica,
8 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Sherrilyn McQueen, who has published more than 80 novels that reached the New York Times bestseller list under the name Sherrilyn Kenyon, first accused her ex-husband Lawrence Kenyon of poisoning her in a lawsuit in 2019, a year after her husband filed for divorce.—
Evan Mealins,
The Tennessean,
10 Sep. 2025
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Wallace filed the claim, which is related to data protection, on Friday.—
Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
10 Sep. 2025
Verb
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In the end, Sutton-Schulman won the Triangle Springs appeal, but Highmark classified L’s treatment at Menninger as two separate admissions.—
Duaa Eldeib,
ProPublica,
10 Sep. 2025
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Where cancellation fees were once treated largely as compensation outside the scope of VAT, the Court has increasingly classified them as consideration for services and therefore taxable.—
Aleksandra Bal,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Verb
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In 2024, Nepal ranked 107th out of 180 countries on Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index, with 84% of people perceiving government corruption to be a major problem.—
Nir Kshetri,
The Conversation,
14 Sep. 2025
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The two-time Olympic champion enters this year’s championships ranked fourth in the world.—
Katelyn Hutchison,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Prioritized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prioritized. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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