- plural of expediency.
expediencies
Example Sentences
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And in our contacts with Mexican people we had been faced with a change in expediencies.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2020
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
In 1945, American General Douglas MacArthur tore open an isolated military government for trade, military expediencies and intelligence.
From Time ● Jun. 3, 2013
But, the circumstances being what they were, the narrower expediencies of ordinary politics were outweighed by one of those supreme and indefeasible expediencies which are classified as moral.
From On Compromise by John Morley
