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triage

[tree-ahzh] / triˈɑʒ /
VERB
pay immediate attention to particular priorities
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The review found "recurrent and systemic weaknesses in the management of high-risk pregnancy, foetal surveillance, maternity triage, escalation and organisational learning", documents said.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

As Karen and I triage our possessions, I have discovered the joys of life in a tidy house.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

Rankine’s new attempt at triage focuses on her long friendship with a person identified only as “the theorist.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

One of the immediate actions being urged on maternity units is to overhaul their triage service, which Baroness Amos described as "increasingly becoming the A&E service for maternity".

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

She has performed a kind of emergency triage, banishing the infected to save the well.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

The company developed a metric called “Mean Time to Adapt,” which measures how quickly an organization identifies, triages and fixes vulnerabilities once discovered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

The team preps trees when possible ahead of advancing flames and triages those that have faced the fire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2021

For every patient that telemedicine triages, avoiding the need for an in-person appointment, another slot is opened up for someone who may have needed it more.

From Slate ● Mar. 17, 2020

“Hope has sustained communities, very much like Thousand Oaks, through the exact same triages of mass shootings,” said Andy Fox, the city’s outgoing mayor.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 9, 2018

In the months following the shooting, university counselors provided more than 700 mental health triages, spoke to classes, visited survivors in the hospital, fielded 120 calls from parents and provided other services.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2012

Medical teams triaged evacuees in a car park, wrapping up wounds and stringing up bags of saline for IV drips under tents.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2025

If the animal can be triaged nearby and stabilized, Rulli said, rescuers try to transport them to the institute’s hospital in Sausalito.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2024

Diaz triaged resources, cutting specialty units in favor of patrol.

From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2024

"This is the only hospital still accepting injured and we're getting more every day. Some go into surgery, others get triaged, but the capacity is very low," he said.

From Reuters ● Apr. 19, 2023

Many were triaged in the war zone and then treated at a military medical facility in Landstuhl, Germany, before being flown to the United States.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

They found that DeepSeek handled these tasks as well as Anthropic’s Sonnet and was good at email triaging in particular.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

One episode of 1990s BBC series Cardiac Arrest opens in a hectic triaging unit.

From BBC ● May 15, 2025

“We have a lot of resources in that area, and they’re triaging the best they can,” an operations team member replied.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2025

They say state-of-the-art large language models like GPT-4 could be useful for providing eye-related advice, diagnosis, and management suggestions in well-controlled contexts, like triaging patients, or where access to specialist healthcare professionals is limited.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2024

The lightness he'd felt fled him, and he began the rotten business of triaging his in-box.

From Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow



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