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
After Nature invites audiences to consider how contemporary art can offer new ways of seeing, sensing and engaging with the natural world at a time of urgent ecological change.
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Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
That effort has become more urgent as a plunge in Tesla sales that began earlier this year shows little sign of abating.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2025
With demand expected to grow as populations rise, cutting the sector’s carbon footprint is becoming urgent.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
The fact that most companies haven’t included heat protections in their supplier codes of conduct makes the issue more urgent, the letter said.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 10 Sep. 2025
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Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
That effort has become more urgent as a plunge in Tesla sales that began earlier this year shows little sign of abating.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2025
With demand expected to grow as populations rise, cutting the sector’s carbon footprint is becoming urgent.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
The fact that most companies haven’t included heat protections in their supplier codes of conduct makes the issue more urgent, the letter said.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 10 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for urgent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for urgent
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In women, nerve issues or a cystocele (a type of pelvic organ prolapse, or dropped bladder) can alter flow, but acute urinary retention is much less common, affecting only about 3 in 100,000 women each year.—
Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt,
CNN Money,
15 Sep. 2025
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Kazakhstan’s president recognizes the acute competition for investors’ dollars.—
Mark Temnycky,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The idea of an independent misconduct authority has been kicked around by the industry since the Noel Clarke scandal four years ago, but its existence has become more pressing amid a string of power abuse crises involving the likes of MasterChef presenter Wallace and ITV chef Gino D’Acampo.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
10 Sep. 2025
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More pressing problems, consumer advocates say Consumer advocates said the Education Department’s efforts could pull resources needed to address more pressing problems, including fixes for millions of borrowers who are unable to access affordable repayment options.—
Annie Nova,
CNBC,
10 Sep. 2025
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The incursion comes as the United Nations and others have warned that the assault will worsen an already dire humanitarian crisis, with parts of the Gaza officially declared under famine.—
Oren Liebermann,
CNN Money,
16 Sep. 2025
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Some are on par in potency with fentanyl, which has taken the lives of hundreds of thousands of drug users in just the last five years, compounding the already dire, decades-long opioid crisis in the country.—
Connor Greene,
Time,
16 Sep. 2025
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This blaze is intense enough that firefighters used water lines to moisten the soil around trees and wrapped their trunks with fire-resistant foil blankets.—
Kurt Snibbe,
Oc Register,
20 Sep. 2025
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From time to time, there’s still an intense demand for anything connected to the Fab Four, and countless films, books, and albums have been issued in the decades since the musicians split.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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Abigail Adams,
PEOPLE,
19 Sep. 2025
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Chunk brings a compelling storyline to this year's competition.—
Bill Chappell,
NPR,
19 Sep. 2025
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The result, from seemingly simple inputs of molecules and energy, is emergent, incalculable chaos.—
Joseph Howlett,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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While Fonseca frames the uprising as a type of emergent phenomenon in his post and a YouTube video, examination of the source code by AI researcher Simon Willison shows that Fonseca specifically instructed the villagers to behave this way and even escalate the unrest over time.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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Parallel to this moment, Freddy Sodawallah (Manish Chaudhari), the seasoned and shrewd Bollywood producer who has been managing Aasmaan’s early career, and Jaraj Saxena (Rajat Bedi), a fading actor desperate for a comeback, investigate the truth on their own.—
Isadora Wandermurem,
Time,
18 Sep. 2025
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The government – desperate for good economic news before the November Budget – claims that investment will create some 7,600 jobs.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
18 Sep. 2025
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Xi Jinping has remarked that relying on foreign supply of critical technologies—like semiconductors—is tantamount to building one's house on someone else's foundation.—
Joel Thayer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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Bynum made a diving catch that extinguished a critical drive for the Broncos.—
The Athletic NFL Staff,
New York Times,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Urgent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urgent. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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