priority
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“Art crime is a property crime, and any type of property crime is not considered a priority by most police departments,” he explains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Paying off high-interest debt would be the priority.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said lawmakers needed to "act urgently" and promised AI would be a priority for his party.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
"Our immediate priority remains the safety of residents," it said.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
After they finished with Flux, they’d have to make sending TimeStar back to whenever he came from a priority if Sheed was ever going to fit through a doorway again.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
"Our central innovation is the true convergence of partner priorities with scalable engineering," said Aronoff-Spencer.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
Its approach is designed around a simple idea: public health agencies identify the problems they urgently need solved, and researchers then build tools around those real-world priorities.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
PCCs are elected officials who set the priorities of a police force, appoint a chief constable and hold them to account.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
"There is no better moment to bring in business leaders to Brussels to reconnect with EU stakeholders and to reiterate our priorities," said Alexis van Maercke of Detergents Europe.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
“I took your advice about making my priorities priorities again, and told my dad what my plans were. It didn’t go very well.”
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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