as in to categorize
to put in order based on importance
We prioritized the hardest parts of the project before the easier ones.
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Recent Examples of prioritize
Saudi Arabia’s domestic bond market is growing, slowly, as both lenders and borrowers prioritize direct loans from banks over public issuances.
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Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 7 July 2025
Trump allies in Congress, like Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert with the Pet and Livestock Protection Act, flagrantly prioritize political agendas over science, according to the nonprofit National Resources Defense Council.
—Christine Peterson, Wired News, 5 July 2025
The Netflix documentary reinforces a narrative that Carnival prioritizes marketing and profit over passenger experience.
—Roger Dooley, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
Meanwhile, outsourcing non-core services can reduce costs by up to 28%, yet 25% of health plan and 16% of health system finance leaders are not prioritizing it.
—Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 25 June 2025
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Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 7 July 2025
Trump allies in Congress, like Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert with the Pet and Livestock Protection Act, flagrantly prioritize political agendas over science, according to the nonprofit National Resources Defense Council.
—Christine Peterson, Wired News, 5 July 2025
The Netflix documentary reinforces a narrative that Carnival prioritizes marketing and profit over passenger experience.
—Roger Dooley, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
Meanwhile, outsourcing non-core services can reduce costs by up to 28%, yet 25% of health plan and 16% of health system finance leaders are not prioritizing it.
—Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 25 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prioritize
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Regulators now categorize the south Biscayne Bay coast as having a one-in-four chance of flooding from a storm surge within 30 years.—
Denise Hruby
Updated July 13,
Miami Herald,
13 July 2025
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Trump has also frequented his own resort properties, notably Mar-a-Lago and Bedminster, for personal retreats or closed-press political dinners, but these have generally not been categorized as public events.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 July 2025
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The local hospitality workers’ union, Unite Here Local 49, had organized residents of the two apartment complexes that have opened in the Railyards over the past year — The A.J. and The Wong Center.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
14 July 2025
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Cort was also the senior class vice president, active with the volleyball and tennis teams and helped organize other school events.—
Andy Humbles,
The Tennessean,
14 July 2025
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Wednesday was another volunteer’s third day pulling and sorting debris at the RV site.—
Bayliss Wagner,
Austin American Statesman,
14 July 2025
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Algorithm designers have long studied these space-time trade-offs for specific tasks like sorting.—
Ben Brubaker,
Wired News,
13 July 2025
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Cashews are classified as tree nuts, one of the nine major food allergens.—
Matthew Robinson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 July 2025
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More than half of the cases — 417 — were classified as immigration violations.—
Norma Galeana,
CNN Money,
4 July 2025
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Construction teams can sequence work stages, plan material deliveries, and schedule the right workers.—
Kathleen Kewley,
Forbes.com,
4 July 2025
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Next, the team sequenced RNA from mitochondria in the brain tissue from 19 people between the ages of 13 and 78.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
3 July 2025
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Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit last month seeking a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction to put the project on hold until legal wrangling is resolved.—
Dara Kam,
Sun Sentinel,
7 July 2025
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Paramount paid $16 million to the Trump Library fund to settle a lawsuit Trump filed against it, following itsCBS’s 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris last year, which her then-campaign rival, Trump, did not like.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Time,
7 July 2025
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“Prioritize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prioritize. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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