exigency
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That sense of exigency is honeycombed with grief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2023
"We have absolute faith in Australians understanding the exigency of this reform, why we need it, and we believe they'll come on board and vote yes," Davis said.
From Reuters ● Jun. 23, 2023
“Associated in my entire family’s mind with exigency, a thing that nobody likes!!”
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2022
The predicament illustrates the exigency of the deepening refugee crisis.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2022
It is a pity that, in the nature of the case, it could not fill the nomenclatural exigency sufficiently to survive.
From Down the Yellowstone by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)
Unencumbered by deep convictions and free from the constraints imposed by conventional morality or codes of honor, he can alter his tactics to the exigencies of the moment without hesitation or scruple.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
"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
Because when you write a Constitution and you write a fundamental law of a country, it’s not like a federal law that you are passing to meet the exigencies of the moment.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2024
How nearly the exigencies of a hack writer had touched him is shown by a passage in a letter to the Oliviers written in 1838.
From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by More, Paul Elmer
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