as in acute
needing immediate attention
I will need to put off everything but the most urgent issues
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Recent Examples of urgent
Within this cascade, the lectin pathway of complement deserves urgent attention.
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Steve Brozak, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
That makes the need for such housing and other assistance much more widespread and urgent, experts say.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 14 May 2026
Molanphy is more in the middle about how urgent another Sting induction should be.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 14 May 2026
This teaching is more urgent now because of tech-heavy medicine and the coming onslaught of AI in patient care.
—Literary Hub, 14 May 2026
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Steve Brozak, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
That makes the need for such housing and other assistance much more widespread and urgent, experts say.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 14 May 2026
Molanphy is more in the middle about how urgent another Sting induction should be.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 14 May 2026
This teaching is more urgent now because of tech-heavy medicine and the coming onslaught of AI in patient care.
—Literary Hub, 14 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for urgent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for urgent
Adjective
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Are more acute vulnerabilities being exposed by the rise in yields, and will elevated inflation expectations create an undertow to equity valuations?—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
19 May 2026
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Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome affects the kidneys and causes a wide range of symptoms, including blurred vision, low blood pressure, acute shock, internal bleeding and kidney failure.—
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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The most pressing issue facing Tarrant County is affordability.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 May 2026
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This is one of several instances of emotional realism that pierce the film’s temporal veil — turning it, in theory, from a series of recollections into a more pressing and contemporary saga of how war trickles down and transforms the lives of young girls in fundamental ways.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
13 May 2026
Adjective
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Among adult patients who have the capacity to make their own medical decisions, autonomy (with rare exceptions like suicide) generally wins out — even in scenarios, as in my field of adult intensive care unit (ICU) medicine, where the consequences can be dire.—
Adam W. Gaffney,
STAT,
18 May 2026
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Some analysts have argued that Iran still has some time before the situation becomes dire, but the White House is decidedly more bullish.—
Ilan Berman,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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What sets this masa harina apart is its distinct, intense corn flavor.—
Inés Anguiano,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
13 May 2026
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Being confined to a wooden chair, wearing that impressive multilayered costume, in the intense heat of Gran Canaria.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2026
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Ingrid Vasquez,
PEOPLE,
17 May 2026
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An hour north of New York City, the Hudson Valley has turned into one of the country’s most compelling beer regions with farms, river towns, mountain backdrops, and a concentration of serious breweries that keeps growing.—
Jim Dobson,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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Some of those roles were for emergent bilinguals and special education.—
Lacey Beasley,
CBS News,
18 May 2026
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With Gerrit Cole still working through his rehab starts, the Yankees rotation has gone from a significant strength to something less than following emergent ace Cam Schlittler.—
Peter Chawaga,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
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Despite desperate attempts to escape in April 1848, every man who participated in the expedition died, marking the worst disaster in the history of British polar exploration, according to London's Royal Museums Greenwich.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
14 May 2026
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This page has very mixed feelings about that subsidy, but is not similarly ambivalent about Chicago’s desperate need to get the wheels of development turning again.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2026
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In Canada, those minerals sit in the same rock formations where miners already dig for copper, nickel, and diamonds, or explore for critical green transition metals like lithium and cobalt.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
18 May 2026
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Global energy demand is projected to rise more than 50% by 2040, driven by economic growth in Asia and power-hungry AI infrastructure — and LNG, which is a cleaner fuel than coal or oil, is seen as a critical source to help meet that demand.—
Mohammed Sergie,
semafor.com,
18 May 2026
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“Urgent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urgent. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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