as in unimportant
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Recent Examples of noncritical
Lane restrictions will occur in the fall and next spring to accommodate work on noncritical items.
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Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 16 Aug. 2024
This means that instead of using separate networks and buses for noncritical devices and critical devices, there is a push to have one network that both critical and noncritical devices can share.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2022
Officials said Tuesday morning all the critical patients were moved to other hospitals and evacuations of noncritical patients are still underway.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2023
The final noncritical patient had been moved by midday Tuesday, according to LAFD spokesperson Margaret Stewart, who said fire officials would begin the process of demobilizing.
—Dakin Andone, CNN, 22 Aug. 2023
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Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 16 Aug. 2024
This means that instead of using separate networks and buses for noncritical devices and critical devices, there is a push to have one network that both critical and noncritical devices can share.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2022
Officials said Tuesday morning all the critical patients were moved to other hospitals and evacuations of noncritical patients are still underway.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2023
The final noncritical patient had been moved by midday Tuesday, according to LAFD spokesperson Margaret Stewart, who said fire officials would begin the process of demobilizing.
—Dakin Andone, CNN, 22 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for noncritical
Adjective
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But that’s not because the work of the public sector itself is unimportant.—
Adam Chandler,
TIME,
20 Feb. 2025
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Council President Joe LaCava defended the city’s focus on something so relatively unimportant compared to closing a $258 million deficit that is expected to require substantial budget cuts.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Feb. 2025
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Canada's system ensures equitable access and lower costs but is often criticized for longer wait times for nonurgent procedures.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
3 Dec. 2024
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The urge to pursue your pleasures will be all but impossible to ignore, so feel free to leave less exciting nonurgent tasks for another time.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
11 Sep. 2024
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Given this, there is no straightforward way to understand what a model is doing on an intuitive level, as from our perspective running inference on a model is nothing more than executing trillions of trivial operations such as addition and multiplication.—
Rahul Gudise,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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And figuring out that amount was not a trivial task.—
Jayson Stewart,
IEEE Spectrum,
5 Mar. 2025
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Weekend temperatures to return to normal A strong low-pressure system moving over the Great Lakes area Friday afternoon will bring colder air to the Kansas City area, according to the weather service.—
Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
27 Feb. 2025
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The fast-growing low-pressure system will pack strong gusts of 60 to 80 miles per hour along the Pacific Coast as well as inland locations and mountaintops.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA TODAY,
25 Feb. 2025
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According to a statement from the Danville Police Department, the drivers of both vehicles suffered minor injuries, while two other passengers in the truck were unhurt.—
Rick Hurd,
The Mercury News,
4 Mar. 2025
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The cab driver suffered minor back and neck injuries in the crash and claimed Zangrilli was drunk but the responding officer sent the inspector on his way, telling the cabbie to file an accident report at an NYPD precinct.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
4 Mar. 2025
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How these characters define themselves ethnically is incidental to the violent, high-stakes crime world they’re thrust into.—
Hershal Pandya,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2025
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A lot of character growth happens offscreen, and the romantic relationships feel arbitrary more than anything else — necessary on the page for marketing a TV show, but mostly incidental to what makes people want to watch this one in the first place.—
Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
6 Mar. 2025
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Ukraine does produce titanium, a mineral the Trump administration has shown additional interest in, but their production and reserves are negligible, according to the USGS.—
Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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But such risks are negligible when the procedure is performed properly under the care of a qualified professional (typically an anesthesiologist, but orthopedic surgeons, neurologists, radiologists, and other specialists may perform epidurals as well).—
Stephen C. George,
Discover Magazine,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Noncritical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noncritical. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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