exigency
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The court’s consideration of this motion, moreover, was hardly warp speed for a case of this importance and exigency.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2024
"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
It is only to say that it reflects the exigency of the crisis — not some essential nobility of character that this country lacks.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 10, 2022
This was an exigency which the laws had never contemplated, and although it was everywhere admitted that the man deserved punishment, it was difficult to find a law bearing upon his case.
From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Casseday, Ben
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