nonurgent

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Recent Examples of nonurgent 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 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 Prolotherapy does not cure any condition and is used as an elective (nonurgent) treatment. Alex Yampolsky, Verywell Health, 17 Oct. 2024 This crisis particularly affected those facilities that faced restrictions on nonurgent care. Len Wright, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for nonurgent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonurgent
Adjective
  • The victim was taken to the hospital in noncritical condition.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2025
  • If ransomware infiltrates a segment containing noncritical systems, the damage remains localized.
    Sameer Malhotra, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Three have been discharged, including two who sustained minor injuries while responding to the scene.
    Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 3 May 2025
  • The toddlers had suffered puncture wounds and lacerations to their arms and legs, while an 18-year-old woman also had a minor injury to her arm, the release stated.
    Latoya Gayle, People.com, 2 May 2025
Adjective
  • The law at stake might also seem relatively unimportant.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 7 May 2025
  • Protect your time and use something like the Eisenhower Matrix to let go of nonurgent or unimportant activities.
    Denise Russo, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Something as trivial as missing a meeting or forgetting to report a change of address becomes the reason they’re denied a fresh start.
    Robert Melvin, Baltimore Sun, 7 May 2025
  • The loophole was called de minimis, which is Latin for something trivial and insignificant.
    Emily Feng, NPR, 2 May 2025
Adjective
  • Potentially 40% of autopsies can reveal additional information beyond testing conducted in life, though not all of these will be incidental.
    Lauren B. Solberg, Sun Sentinel, 6 May 2025
  • Within the emerging framework, a government at war could claim that starving enemy combatants remained legal and that as a result, incidental civilian deaths were tragic but nearly unavoidable outcomes of a legitimate method of modern warfare against totalitarian enemies.
    Boyd van Dijk, Foreign Affairs, 30 Apr. 2025

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“Nonurgent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonurgent. Accessed 17 May. 2025.

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