How to Use triage in a Sentence
triage
noun- Nurses do triage in the emergency room.
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The next step in owning the problem is to triage the problem.
— John Knotts, Forbes, 1 June 2021 -
Time to do triage on the houseplants that have spent the summer out on the front steps.
— Sally McCabe, Philly.com, 14 Sep. 2017 -
A lot of knowledge work is drudgery, like email triage.
— WIRED, 13 June 2023 -
A lot of grim faces and a triage approach to releasing the movie.
— Yohana Desta, HWD, 24 Apr. 2017 -
The doctors who scrambled to rescue and triage survivors in 2015 look back in search of lessons.
— Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 6 July 2018 -
Helping with the triage was a third-year resident, Samuel L. Katz.
— Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2022 -
The hallway was used to treat and triage wounded and dying children.
— Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2023 -
The notion of triage was a creation of battlefield medicine during the Crimean War.
— Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2017 -
The city also lacked a war room to triage emergent cases—a gap that soon proved glaring.
— Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 23 June 2021 -
Staff at the prison found Cook and transported him to the triage and treatment unit, officials said.
— Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2024 -
But when there aren’t enough tests to go around, public health officials need to triage.
— Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 1 Sep. 2020 -
The second by people desperate for a place to triage just after the storm had passed.
— Southern Living, 1 May 2017 -
The idea is to triage and let some lesser crimes go to keep caseloads workable, while still achieving justice.
— Robert Higgs, cleveland, 9 July 2022 -
These are lineup wounds the Yankees likely can’t triage overnight.
— Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2022 -
Three field hospitals and triage tents are being set up in North Sinai near the Rafah crossing.
— WSJ, 1 Nov. 2023 -
How many lives have the cops of Minneapolis saved by being the first on the scene to triage the victims of gunshots?
— Star Tribune, 3 July 2021 -
They will be used as triage centers and sobering stations.
— Lynne Terry, OregonLive.com, 10 Aug. 2017 -
Amid the onslaught, news triage is as much a survival mechanism as a civic duty.
— Philip Elliott, TIME, 17 Sep. 2024 -
Three field hospitals and triage tents are being set up in North Sinai near the Rafah border crossing.
— WSJ, 26 Oct. 2023 -
Tree services large and small were scrambling just to triage Zeta's damage.
— John Simerman, NOLA.com, 31 Oct. 2020 -
But with the power output decreasing by about four watts a year, NASA has been forced into triage mode.
— Tim Folger, Scientific American, 18 June 2022 -
As issues evolve and tickets emerge, GitHub is the best way to migrate the conversation from triage to working on a fix.
— Expert Panel®, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022 -
These clever apps and devices will help you to find your way, triage an injury and generally stay out of trouble on the trail.
— Nikita Richardson, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2024 -
These clever apps and devices will help you to find your way, triage an injury and generally stay out of trouble on the trail.
— Nina Burleigh, New York Times, 21 May 2024 -
These were the triage decisions the Border Patrol now made every night: whom to transport to safety, and whom to leave in the desert until the next shift.
— Eli Saslow Erin Schaff, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024 -
The overrun hospital would triage him, and the hospice staff would move in and put him down like a dog, thanks to his annoying daughters.
— Lorrie Moore, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2020 -
Paramedics set up a triage area at the scene and transported the injured to seven hospitals for treatment.
— Sophie Reardon, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2022 -
So Schulman and his executives gathered for a six-hour whiteboarding session to perform triage.
— Jason Ma, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2024 -
The antidote to information overload is predictive AI, the use of machine learning models to triage and prioritize.
— Eric Siegel, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
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