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Fixing systemic inequities in voting power should be a high priority for Democrats.

From Vox

The National Academy of Medicine is working on priorities for the first phase.

From Fortune

That process—dating back to the earliest days of the company—stands today as a very top priority.

From Fortune

For years, San Diego’s biggest priority when it comes to water has been securing its own drought-proof source of it.

Another senator backed up the idea that Atkins didn’t ask other lawmakers to make her bill a priority.

In fact, in a recent study of their users internationally, it was the lowest priority for most.

Current and former intelligence officials have said North Korea has long been a priority target for American spies.

It's not necessarily a deal-breaker, but it is kind of a top priority.

If we want that to change, then all of us have to encourage our legislators to make funding community policing a priority.

“The tribe is really made of people who put travel as a priority in their entire lifestyle,” says Evita.

As Donovan described and figured this insect many years before Dr. Leach, his name has the right of priority.

I gladly yield to M. Papus the priority in time, which was possible to a well-informed gentleman, at the centre of the conspiracy.

Of all the foolish things that scientific men quarrel about, one of the most foolish is the question of priority of discovery.

Granted, therefore, that the question of form must take priority, how can it be best attained?

His merits in this as in other respects, his various claims to priority of invention, are only too often overlooked.

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On this page you'll find 33 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to priority, such as: arrangement, preference, antecedence, lead, order, and precedence.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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