expediency
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Critics said the move stripped the office of much of its authority, particularly to enforce responsible AI standards, in favor of expediency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
Apple is pacing itself, putting user experience and privacy above expediency.
From Barron's ● Dec. 5, 2025
Barr, which made clear that immigration enforcement must be tethered to the Constitution, not expediency.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2025
The first “Simple Favor” was already a dishy delight — and if that summary intrigues you, it’s worth a watch to take in all of the preposterous twists and turns I’ve left out for expediency.
From Salon ● May 3, 2025
The long and short of it is, it was an institution, and institutions are governed by expediency.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
And in our contacts with Mexican people we had been faced with a change in expediencies.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2020
In le Carré’s novels, people who long ago became spies out of patriotism or some other strain of idealism find themselves hopelessly compromised by the expediencies of the work itself.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2018
The film examine three discrete chapters in Jobs' life, and some believed that, whatever narrative expediencies it provided, that structure could be a liability.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2015
Mr. Murswiek criticized the central bank for viewing “economic expediencies as the only thing worth caring about.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2014
Our duty to agree with reality is seen to be grounded in a perfect jungle of concrete expediencies.
From Pragmatism by James, William
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