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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

He regards these horrors as a temporary expedient .

From Time Magazine Archive

A temporary expedient is all that was contemplated, and nothing more lasting was evoked.

From England and Germany by Hughes, William Morris




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