prioritized

verb

past tense of prioritize
as in categorized
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 People set to lose those vouchers are being prioritized for available housing, meaning the county can’t help as many people who are homeless now. — Laura Ungar, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026 For back-to-school, consumers prioritized value and promotional events. — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 29 Sep. 2026 Roker has prioritized his health in recent years, following his 2020 prostate cancer diagnosis. — Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2026 How should friendship be prioritized in the face of these transformations? — Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026 While the technology exists today, most retailers haven’t prioritized closing that last experiential gap. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026 Krell has also prioritized legislation to protect women and girls. — Sofia Williams, Sacbee.com, 27 Sep. 2026 These investigations require significant resources, but overdose deaths are often not prioritized by police in the same way as a fatal shooting. — Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2026 Accenture says that the AI use cases that insurers have prioritized have been focused on claims and underwriting, reflecting the outsized importance of those parts of the business to the industry’s total revenue generation. — John Kell, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prioritized
  1. categorized
  2. organized
  3. sorted
  4. filed
  5. sequenced
  6. classified
  7. ranked
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  • Seeking new crypto money, Christie’s and Sotheby’s cut all other legitimizing actors out of the loop with NFTs, elevating what might previously have been categorized as illustration, graphic art, or a social media meme to the status of fine art.
    — Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Junk Cleaner reports on the amount of free storage available and lists large files categorized as Images, Videos, and Other.
    — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of categorized
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  • Zhang was one of more than 50 students from China, Singapore, Britain and Australia attending a camp in Beijing organized by the year-old AI learning platform Xinya AI.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The nearby Jefferson drill site, which Redeemer Community Partnership also organized against, elected to shut down in 2018 after the city ordered it to implement stronger health protections.
    — Blanca Begert, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of organized
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  • The poly bag waste is sorted again, shredded and processed before being shipped to a licensed importer.
    — Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Whatever electronic gremlins the first models came out with have long been sorted.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of sorted
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  • The civil action was filed on behalf of E’Mari’s mother, Maurissa Ann Marshall.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026
  • While those companies are not named in the Boulder case, they are named as defendants in similar climate lawsuits filed across the country, suits that very likely would be affected by the high court’s ruling.
    — Callie Patteson, The Washington Examiner, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of filed
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  • About 1 million people globally have sequenced their genomes, and realistically about 1 billion people need to sequence their genomes for models to function more meaningfully.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2025
Definition of sequenced
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  • Treasurer Erick Russell has also pushed changes designed to prevent active bank accounts from being wrongly classified as abandoned.
    — Mark Lewyn, Hartford Courant, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The Jackson County Medical Examiner’s Office reviewed the man’s death and classified it as a homicide, Becchina said.
    — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of classified
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  • Natomas Unified School District ranked #2 among the most diverse school districts in America and #7 for Best School Districts in the Sacramento area.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 30 Sep. 2026
  • The temblor ranked weak to light on the Modified Mercalli Intensity scale.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of ranked

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“Prioritized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prioritized. Accessed 7 Oct. 2026.

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