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exigency

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My arbitrary job often feels so removed from the exigencies of the physical world that I assume I’d be the first sacrifice in a survivalist reality show.

These exigencies seem to have constituted something irrepressible for all the human groups that have trod the Earth for millennia.

The Grammys last night were awkward, strained by the exigencies of the virus.

So Newt & Co. attempt—in ways that mix childhood longings with political exigency—to speak the language of ESPN.

These matters of political exigency were undoubtedly beyond the comprehension of the Ylongos.

She must have been conscious of depths of capacity, to which, whatever the exigency, appeal was never made in vain.

The exigency nerved me for the task, and I found a courage sufficient to carry me through.

The fiction that they do exist disappears at once in the clear atmosphere of "exigency."

But on this day, and in this extreme momentous exigency, no reliance is reposed on our constitutional counsels!

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On this page you'll find 106 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to exigency, such as: contingency, vicissitude, acuteness, constraint, crisis, and criticalness.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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