exigencies

Example Sentences

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"To spare them from the exigencies of the bill should be done on the grounds that membership of this House would allow them to maintain more easily the contacts that help them perform their duties."

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

It will be encumbered neither by norms nor the exigencies that compel speech in a democratic society.

From Salon • Mar. 10, 2026

Daniel Kehlmann’s latest novel, “The Director,” an engrossing meditation on the exigencies of art and the dangers of artistic complicity, lands in the United States at a good time.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2025

Maybe all we want as an audience is a place to hang out with our favorite characters, suspended from any exigencies of time or plot.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2024

As we shall show in our next chapter, “Thank” was no imaginary name, coined to meet the exigencies of rhyme.

From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Bardsley, Charles W.