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
This is an urgent moral call to action.
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Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2026
New York City Police Department (NYPD) detectives arrested Zahir Davis, 18, Friday night after an urgent search for the suspect who gunned down a child at a Queens playground earlier this month, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced in an X post Saturday.
—Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026
The housing crisis in San Diego County demands urgent action.
—Norma Contreras, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
Enid takes a direct hit from violent tornado A large and slow-moving destructive tornado tracked through Enid, Oklahoma, Thursday evening, triggering a rare tornado emergency — the National Weather Service’s most urgent type of tornado warning.
—Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 24 Apr. 2026
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Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2026
New York City Police Department (NYPD) detectives arrested Zahir Davis, 18, Friday night after an urgent search for the suspect who gunned down a child at a Queens playground earlier this month, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced in an X post Saturday.
—Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026
The housing crisis in San Diego County demands urgent action.
—Norma Contreras, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
Enid takes a direct hit from violent tornado A large and slow-moving destructive tornado tracked through Enid, Oklahoma, Thursday evening, triggering a rare tornado emergency — the National Weather Service’s most urgent type of tornado warning.
—Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 24 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urgent
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After the primary autopsy, the coroner concluded Jackson's death was from acute Propofol intoxication, which caused the singer to go into cardiac arrest, NPR reported.—
Alex Gurley,
PEOPLE,
28 Apr. 2026
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Almost half are personally afraid of losing their job to AI, ranking it among the most acute individual stressors measured in the survey.—
Jessica Guynn,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
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At our Yale Higher Education Summit in January, 100 college and university presidents gathered to discuss the most pressing issues demanding their attention.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Fortune,
29 Apr. 2026
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Nearly a third of Americans, meanwhile, pointed to the high cost of living overall as their most pressing financial concern — suggesting affordability remains a top voting issue.—
Morgan Chalfant,
semafor.com,
28 Apr. 2026
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The book is painfully honest about the strained relationship between Lilo, who survived the camps, and her sisters, who made it to America under less dire circumstances.—
Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
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Republicans, for their part, paint a much more dire picture of the state.—
Anthony Salvanto,
CBS News,
28 Apr. 2026
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By the final showdown, the production has made use of every bit of stage space, with sensational flying sequences (choreographed by Lauren Yalango-Grant and Christopher Cree Grant) that allow the vampires to float, hover, and—in one especially intense moment—dive from that bridge.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
30 Apr. 2026
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The moment has sparked an outpouring of empathy, with many pointing to the intense pressure drivers face on the job.—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN Money,
29 Apr. 2026
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Perhaps the most compelling moment of the 2026 NFL Draft came in the final round, when the Pittsburgh Steelers selected running back Eli Heidenreich and the pick was announced to the hometown crowd gathered at the event.—
Armando Salguero OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
26 Apr. 2026
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This one has persisted long enough to stand tall as arguably the most compelling of the 2020s.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
25 Apr. 2026
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The data presented showed INA year 0-2 emergent bilingual students significantly behind students not at INA over the last three school years.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Apr. 2026
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Use Selective Herbicides White clover is best controlled by applications of post-emergent broadleaf selective herbicides in the fall.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
26 Apr. 2026
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Trapped by a quarantine with no way out, residents are forced into a desperate fight for survival as the threat multiplies by the second.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
30 Apr. 2026
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Georgia is undergoing one of the worst spring droughts in history, and while much of the state is praying for some rain, southern and coastal Georgia are in desperate need.—
Irene Wright,
USA Today,
30 Apr. 2026
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Dozens of nations push for reopening of strait Dozens of nations repeated calls to open the critical waterway in a joint statement led by Bahrain.—
Samy Magdy,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2026
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Those increases are being driven in part by global supply concerns, including ongoing tensions involving Iran and uncertainty surrounding the Strait of Hormuz, a critical route for oil shipments.—
Sergio Candido,
CBS News,
27 Apr. 2026
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“Urgent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urgent. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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