exigency
Example Sentences
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The debate within the agency defies permanent resolution, not least because deference to political exigencies is baked into the Forest Service’s DNA.
From Los Angeles Times
In paying her not to work for five months, you’ve properly shown consideration for the exigencies of people in her position.
From New York Times
Those laws were suspended, revoked or not enforced as mask wearing in many states became a public health exigency.
From Seattle Times
In one case, a November 2019 shooting involving a man with a knife, the officers “created the exigency for themselves,” Moore said in his report.
From Los Angeles Times
He said the lightning-fast impeachment “was required by the exigency of the circumstances, and also made possible by the very nature of the crime.”
From Seattle Times
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