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
Those demands, Johnson said, are irrelevant to the urgent need to pass that continuing resolution.
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Dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
The result is an immersive, urgent, playful, and devastating film that, while experimenting with genre and time, finds surprising commonalities between Brazil 50 years ago and the world today.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
In our polarized age, where doubt is mocked as weakness, their lesson is urgent.
—Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
Just as urgent is supporting small businesses.
—Miami Herald Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
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Dan Mangan,kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
The result is an immersive, urgent, playful, and devastating film that, while experimenting with genre and time, finds surprising commonalities between Brazil 50 years ago and the world today.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
In our polarized age, where doubt is mocked as weakness, their lesson is urgent.
—Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
Just as urgent is supporting small businesses.
—Miami Herald Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for urgent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for urgent
Adjective
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The recent exodus represents an acute brain drain.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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Concerns and anxieties are particularly acute for researchers with ties to China, the country that has long sent more science and engineering PhD students to the US than any other.—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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But there’s a more pressing reason both Nexstar and Sinclair might want to seek the favor of the FCC.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
2 Oct. 2025
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On top of that, pregnancy is full of unknowns—how labor will go and will my baby be healthy among the most pressing concerns for new parents—even when the pregnant person has very little control over the outcome.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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But both Republicans and Democrats laid out dire consequences from a prolonged shutdown.—
Grant Stringer,
Mercury News,
30 Sep. 2025
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The thousands of balsas that set off from Cuba towards the United States in late summer of 1994 did so amidst the most dire humanitarian crisis that had beset the island since the 1959 Revolution.—
Miriam Pensack,
The Dial,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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During periods of intense rainfall, the risk of flooding increases, particularly in low-lying and flood-prone areas.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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Safdie perceptively locates the protagonist’s troubling inner contradictions—the atavistic fury that drives him to compete and the intense self-control that competition demands—but dramatizes such outer crises as opioid addiction and conflict with his girlfriend (Emily Blunt) only schematically.—
Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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This new Taiwanese series looks compelling.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
3 Oct. 2025
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That's what makes the minerals Perseverance spotted — particularly greigite in the leopard spots — so compelling.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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And quite commonly the problem is that in an effort to give the grass every possible advantage, pre-emergent herbicide was applied with the seed — the thinking being that the herbicide will inhibit weeds from competing with the new grass plants.—
Paul Cappiello,
Louisville Courier Journal,
24 Sep. 2025
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Understanding how mentors prioritize can guide emergent leaders in sustainable decision-making, both professionally and personally.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Okane is desperate at the prospect of losing both her true love and her one defender, and her desperation gives rise to extravagant and harrowing drama.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
2 Oct. 2025
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All of these disclaimers add to the fact that Tobin and the Bengals rarely make trades and historically must be forced into a truly desperate situation to give up future assets.—
Paul Dehner Jr,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The armed group controls tens of thousands of acres of coca plantations and has gained significant political leverage as President Gustavo Petro’s Administration scrambles to secure agreements with armed groups critical to advancing Colombia’s broader peace talks and anti-narcotics efforts.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
29 Sep. 2025
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Yet the medical center in central Ukraine, just 60 miles from the frontline, plays a critical role in the current Russia-Ukraine war, where traumatic brain injuries are all-too-common.—
Greg Myre,
NPR,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Urgent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urgent. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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