How to Use triage in a Sentence

triage

noun
  • Nurses do triage in the emergency room.
  • The next step in owning the problem is to triage the problem.
    John Knotts, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • A lot of knowledge work is drudgery, like email triage.
    WIRED, 13 June 2023
  • 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 city also lacked a war room to triage emergent cases—a gap that soon proved glaring.
    Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 23 June 2021
  • But when there aren’t enough tests to go around, public health officials need to triage.
    Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 1 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Problems have emerged across the state as schools triage to minimize disruption.
    Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2022
  • On one side of the room, operators triage incoming phone calls.
    Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Teledentistry could be used to triage patients in need of emergency care.
    Cindy Roark, Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • And the triage process would not just be about deciding who gets an available ICU bed or ventilator.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2020
  • In those instances, triage teams would be tasked with making the call on who should receive lifesaving treatment.
    Luke Money, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2021
  • The city also opened a site where people can sleep in tents and receive services and two vehicle triage centers.
    Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Doctors have been forced to either ration cancer drugs or triage which patients receive the drugs first.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Review the critical path for projects and triage your commitments.
    Liz Kislik, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The association’s website said the tool is used to triage patients in about 80% of hospitals in the United States.
    Casey Ross Reprints, STAT, 23 June 2021
  • Like a doctor in an emergency room flooded with patients, firefighters were forced to triage the fire starts.
    Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Sep. 2020
  • In March, the answer came: The county stopped referring children and adults to the triage programs, a step toward sunsetting them.
    Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023

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