expedient
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Expedient for the industry, each has been doomed to failure.
From Scientific American • Oct. 18, 2023
Janelle Cammenga, policy analyst at the nonpartisan Tax Foundation, is out with a new report: Sales Tax Holidays: Politically Expedient but Poor Tax Policy 2020.
From Washington Times • Aug. 5, 2020
Now for the rebels which stand out in Ireland; Expedient manage must be made, my liege, Ere further leisure yield them further means For their advantage and your highness' loss.
From King Richard II by Shakespeare, William
His Messenger meets with a Misfortune, to which he applies a very extraordinary Expedient that is attended with strange Consequences.
From The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Smollett, T. (Tobias)
Had not my Friend found this Expedient to break the Omen, I question not but half the Women in the Company would have fallen sick that very Night.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph
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