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temporary expedient





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Most employers viewed this as a temporary expedient.

From Slate Apr. 7, 2022

Whatever his intentions, that agreement proved little more than a temporary expedient until the war in the north was won.

From Salon Dec. 24, 2019

The ECB authorized the temporary expedient last week when it stopped accepting Greek government bonds in return for funding.

From Newsweek Feb. 12, 2015

Toynbee never seems to regard coexistence as anything but a temporary expedient to gain time for the pursuit of a long-range solution.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here, too, however, it is only a temporary expedient.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)




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