priority
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Health Minister Karin Smyth said "public safety is and has to remain the top priority".
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
In the months ahead, he must lay the groundwork for consensus between nearly 200 nations even as the war rattles energy markets, nations scramble for fuel supply and climate change slips down the priority list.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
Its leadership wants at least two things from the negotiations with Washington as a priority.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
Wooing workers, though, has become less of a priority as companies’ spending on GLP-1 drugs has ballooned.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
In the 1960s, African American leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., made the right to vote, the most fundamental right in any democracy, their highest priority.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
Vocabulary lists containing priority
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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