[Ads-l] stat - non-vernacular usage

[Barretts Mail]

https://www.phillymag.com/news/2019/02/11/francis-malofiy-led-zeppelin/
They need to staff up, stat.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/stat
(in a medical direction or prescription) immediately.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stat
Immediately; now; usually used in medical situations, to connote extreme urgency.

I think it’s safe to say this has slipped into non-technical vernacular usage.

Benjamin Barrett
Formerly of Seattle, WA
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