as in acute
needing immediate attention
I will need to put off everything but the most urgent issues
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Recent Examples of urgent
As the schemes become more sophisticated, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies are issuing urgent warnings.
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 July 2025
Business leaders today face an urgent call to action: Stop waiting for policy clarity or global calm.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 10 July 2025
In response, researchers and experts are sounding the alarm—calling for urgent, comprehensive solutions to reverse these trends and support youth wellbeing.
—Semafor Events, semafor.com, 30 June 2025
Too Much Going On Limits Executive Team Performance Today’s executive teams are pulled in more directions than ever—global priorities, cross-functional initiatives, urgent issues, never-ending decks.
—Elizabeth Freedman, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for urgent
Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 July 2025
Business leaders today face an urgent call to action: Stop waiting for policy clarity or global calm.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 10 July 2025
In response, researchers and experts are sounding the alarm—calling for urgent, comprehensive solutions to reverse these trends and support youth wellbeing.
—Semafor Events, semafor.com, 30 June 2025
Too Much Going On Limits Executive Team Performance Today’s executive teams are pulled in more directions than ever—global priorities, cross-functional initiatives, urgent issues, never-ending decks.
—Elizabeth Freedman, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urgent
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Since then, more than 57,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza, according to Reuters, and millions are suffering from acute malnutrition, starvation and illness.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
12 July 2025
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The number of children admitted for severe acute malnutrition (SAM), the most deadly form of malnutrition, rose by 50 percent from April to May.—
Sarah Ferguson,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
Adjective
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Lambda Legal’s help desk has already received more requests for assistance with health care, employment and housing discrimination in the first half of 2025 than in all of 2024, with the most pressing need coming from trans and nonbinary callers.—
Tyrone Beason
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
9 July 2025
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With the July 31 trade deadline just a few weeks away and the Yankees not playing their best baseball lately, the team’s most pressing needs are obvious.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
8 July 2025
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Since many retirees depend on Social Security payments for the bulk of their everyday necessities, this could have dire consequences for seniors, pushing many to delay retirement or not be able to retire.—
Suzanne Blake,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 July 2025
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Predictably enough, the situation with younger adults is more dire still.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
11 July 2025
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During the 1995 heat wave, many of the casualties were seniors who didn’t have family or neighbors to check in on them, especially those living in high-rise buildings where the heat was particularly intense.—
Adriana Pérez,
Chicago Tribune,
6 July 2025
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Anybody who thought Messi would rest after the intense international tournament does not know Messi.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
6 July 2025
Adjective
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Erin Clack,
People.com,
13 July 2025
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After Jelly Roll’s big moment cost McIntyre a win at WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event, McIntyre is a strong candidate to challenge for the WWE Championship immediately after SummerSlam, especially with a lack of other compelling options on SmackDown.—
Blake Oestriecher,
Forbes.com,
13 July 2025
Adjective
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Profits are emergent effects of invention and creation.—
Steve Denning,
Forbes.com,
6 July 2025
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My work focuses on emergent technologies—AI, semiconductors—with a national security focus, which is what Micron was most interested in, especially with chips that ultimately end up with DoD as the customer.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
18 June 2025
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Young campers, counselors and staff are roused from sleep and begin a desperate rush to higher ground, according to social media accounts.—
HANNAH FINGERHUT,
Chicago Tribune,
12 July 2025
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Over the past few days, Sheppard has become a teacher and leader for a collection of players desperate to crack the end of a tight Rockets rotation.—
Kelly Iko,
New York Times,
12 July 2025
Adjective
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States loan the money to cities and towns at low interest rates, enabling communities to spread out the cost of critical government services people take for granted, such as replacing leaky street mains, maintaining treatment plants and rehabbing water towers.—
Michael Hawthorne,
Chicago Tribune,
6 July 2025
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Several other critical alerts followed, warning of the imminent threat: A flash flood emergency warning was issued for Kerr County at 4:03 a.m., followed by one for Kerrville at 5:34 a.m.—
Andrew Freedman,
CNN Money,
6 July 2025
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“Urgent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urgent. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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