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Recent Examples of noncritical
Lane restrictions will occur in the fall and next spring to accommodate work on noncritical items.
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Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 16 Aug. 2024
This means that instead of using separate networks and buses for noncritical devices and critical devices, there is a push to have one network that both critical and noncritical devices can share.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2022
Officials said Tuesday morning all the critical patients were moved to other hospitals and evacuations of noncritical patients are still underway.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2023
The final noncritical patient had been moved by midday Tuesday, according to LAFD spokesperson Margaret Stewart, who said fire officials would begin the process of demobilizing.
—Dakin Andone, CNN, 22 Aug. 2023
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Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 16 Aug. 2024
This means that instead of using separate networks and buses for noncritical devices and critical devices, there is a push to have one network that both critical and noncritical devices can share.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2022
Officials said Tuesday morning all the critical patients were moved to other hospitals and evacuations of noncritical patients are still underway.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2023
The final noncritical patient had been moved by midday Tuesday, according to LAFD spokesperson Margaret Stewart, who said fire officials would begin the process of demobilizing.
—Dakin Andone, CNN, 22 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for noncritical
Adjective
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Demonizing the delta smelt was — and is — a way to make facile points to uninformed voters by suggesting that the interests of what appears to be an unimportant fish are somehow elevated above those of human residents.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Jan. 2025
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Again, there’s a moon get-out clause here; our natural satellite is so bright that the size of the objective lens is less unimportant.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
9 Jan. 2025
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Canada's system ensures equitable access and lower costs but is often criticized for longer wait times for nonurgent procedures.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
3 Dec. 2024
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The urge to pursue your pleasures will be all but impossible to ignore, so feel free to leave less exciting nonurgent tasks for another time.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
11 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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Out of a trivial tension, an intimate and unsettling face-to-face confrontation suddenly arises.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
16 Jan. 2025
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Compared with all that has been lost here in L.A., the devastation of Runyon Canyon and other hiking trails is trivial.—
Andrew Moseman,
The Atlantic,
15 Jan. 2025
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With the storm along the coast of the Gulf yesterday, the direction of air flow in the low-pressure system meant the storm funneled in moisture from the Gulf to keep the snow falling—and falling and falling.—
Andrea Thompson,
Scientific American,
22 Jan. 2025
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The Active Red Sea Trough is a rare tongue of low-pressure that extends up the Red Sea from the south when easterly winds blow over the adjacent mountains, and it is known to cause extreme rainfall and flash flooding.—
Raul A. Reyes,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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Fewer than one in three arrestees were charged with any offense, and most of those were for minor infractions like jaywalking, littering, and blocking sidewalks.—
V.N. Trinh / Made by History,
TIME,
27 Jan. 2025
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The epigenetic clock theory suggests aging occurs due to accumulation of epigenetic modifications, or minor changes to the chemical structure of DNA that do not alter the underlying sequence but instead change which genes are on or off.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The ball whistling just past the post seemed almost incidental to those admiring his chutzpah.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
The Athletic,
9 Jan. 2025
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Reflecting on what drew him to each project, Fincher clarified that the pre-existing popularity of such books is merely incidental.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
2 Jan. 2025
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Further, even if Reagan had left the solar hot water panels on the roof of the White House the impact on the industry’s development would have been negligible.—
Michael Lynch,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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Yet their box-office take was negligible, and many reviews were not just negative but derisive.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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“Noncritical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noncritical. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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