matter of necessity
Example Sentences
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For Neira, blocking out the larger world at the academy was sometimes a matter of necessity.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026
The Home Office and Department for Education had opposed the legal challenge, saying the use of hotels for unaccompanied children was lawful and "a matter of necessity".
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2023
Figuring out what to bring was a matter of necessity and a surrender to the fact that the pieces of the lives they built couldn’t fit in a backpack.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2022
Now that he was running for Senate, such contrition was a matter of necessity.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2020
That men would die was a matter of necessity; which men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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