expediency
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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
The Bears haven’t found the same expediency in Illinois despite buying a parcel of land in Arlington Heights, a Chicago suburb, in 2021.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
Apple is pacing itself, putting user experience and privacy above expediency.
From Barron's ● Dec. 5, 2025
Be it political expediency or a genuine change of heart, both have since revised their opinions.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025
Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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
To what citizens the elective franchise shall be confided, is a question to be determined by each State, in accordance with its own views of the necessities or expediencies of its condition.
From Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Opinions of the Judges Thereof, in the Case of Dred Scott versus John F.A. Sandford December Term, 1856. by Benjamin C. Howard
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