expediency

Critics said the move stripped the office of much of its authority, particularly to enforce responsible AI standards, in favor of expediency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

Apple is pacing itself, putting user experience and privacy above expediency.

From Barron's ● Dec. 5, 2025

Barr, which made clear that immigration enforcement must be tethered to the Constitution, not expediency.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2025

Jake Paul has mastered exploiting the expediency of securing the latter.

From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2024

Even though Reggie was coming to terms with his actions at the time of the accident, there was plenty of reason to think the plea was just expediency.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

And in our contacts with Mexican people we had been faced with a change in expediencies.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2020

In le Carré’s novels, people who long ago became spies out of patriotism or some other strain of idealism find themselves hopelessly compromised by the expediencies of the work itself.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2018

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

Principle is only another name for a proposition stating the terms of one of these larger expediencies.

From On Compromise by John Morley