prioritizing

verb

present participle of prioritize
as in categorizing
to put in order based on importance We prioritized the hardest parts of the project before the easier ones.

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Recent Examples of prioritizing Operationally, Geraghty is prioritizing domestic production to shorten lead times. — Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026 The retailer has courted more customers by leaning further into e-commerce, expanding its online marketplace and prioritizing its delivery service. — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026 Restaurants that accommodate solo reservations may be worth prioritizing. — Ashley Lynch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Oct. 2026 In August 2020, amid racial justice protests on the plaza outside Barclays Center, Wu Tsai and her husband, Alibaba cofounder Joe Tsai, pledged $50 million over 10 years to social justice and economic mobility initiatives, prioritizing Brooklyn. — James Laforge, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026 Routed directly to whoever can mobilize the data by changing the ad, prioritizing the backlog or enhancing the renewal play, the same signal becomes a growth lever. — Jay Lee, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026 With no clear end to the volatility, independent retailers are having to build it into their buying strategies, prioritizing flexible orders, transparent shipping terms, and suppliers willing to share the risk. — Jessica Binns, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2026 In the past year, the music world saw a genre-spanning slate of artists both wearing their hearts on their sleeves in their art, as well as publicly prioritizing their own mental health like never before. — Rob Ledonne, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2026 At a September campaign event in Pittsboro, Whatley praised legislation enacted over Cooper’s opposition and accused the former governor of prioritizing transgender participation over protections for female athletes. — Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prioritizing
  1. categorizing
  2. organizing
  3. sorting
  4. classifying
  5. filing
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  • Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday rejected the idea that election monitors being deployed to polls during the midterm elections will be armed, categorizing the notion as fearmongering and false.
    — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Some of the recent gains came from re-categorizing conservation agreements that had already existed.
    — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
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  • Workers are organizing at manufacturing plants, in newsrooms, in technology, in hospitals, on college campuses, and construction sites.
    — Liz Shuler, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The area of opportunity for the Democratic Party continues to be a tendency to concentrate resources and organizing around major elections.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of organizing
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  • Its argument is that insurers have been pricing wildfire risk the wrong way, by looking backward at statistics and sorting homes by zip code.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Students are constantly running this calculation, sorting the people and institutions around them into who’s reliable and who isn’t.
    — Karl Mawhinney, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of sorting
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  • Below, members of Forbes Technology Council share strategies for classifying large volumes of unstructured data while keeping the manual workload manageable.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Zema has proposed classifying major criminal factions as terrorist organizations.
    — Katie Angell Britannica Editors Oct. 2, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of classifying
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  • Getty Images, a massive image licensing company with hundreds of millions of assets in its library, is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
    — Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The Douglas District Attorney's Office is not filing any charges in connection with the death of a 12-year-old Mason Creek Middle School student after a fight after school earlier this year.
    — Dan Raby, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of filing

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“Prioritizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prioritizing. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

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