expediency
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If political expediency often ruled his mind, his heart was that of a true patriot, dedicated always to the freedom he knew only his country could ultimately achieve.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Whenever we start locking folks up — whether it’s in mental wards or immigration detention centers or jails — we should be careful that expediency isn’t trumping ethics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
Apple is pacing itself, putting user experience and privacy above expediency.
From Barron's ● Dec. 5, 2025
However, Jacobs and Roach refuse to sacrifice Violet’s character for the film’s expediency.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2025
In the Icefall, though, expediency dictated that each of us climb independently, without being physically connected to one another in any way.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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
The young man was already beginning to calculate expediencies with gravity and precision.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
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