as in precedence
the right to one's attention before other things considered less important the committee has decided to give your request priority, so you'll have a meeting early tomorrow morning

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Recent Examples of priority Democrats could have chosen any number of priorities to attach to this fight — from tariffs to corruption to ICE raids — instead your party has drawn a line around permanently extending Affordable Care Act tax credits and reversing Medicaid cuts. Nik Popli, Time, 26 Sep. 2025 Under the agreement, Zeno will make a multi-million-dollar investment to obtain priority access to large quantities of Am-241 per year from Orano’s la Hague recycling site in Normandy, France. Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025 When asked whether campus police are usually sent to address issues with campus room reservations, Barwacz said the department’s priority is campus safety. Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2025 This sends an unhealthy message to the neighbors — that their comments are last priority and since the agenda is completed, their comments are useless. Kelly G. Richardson, Oc Register, 26 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for priority
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precedence
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  • Nonetheless, commonplace platitudes about honor and bravery take precedence over the feminist undertones Wyatt may aspire to.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The judge ruled that while Tempel was speaking as a private citizen, her tweet disrupted school operations, giving the district's interests precedence.
    Alec Johnson, jsonline.com, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Priority.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/priority. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.

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