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urgency

noun as in imperativeness

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“I researched that euthanasia story with the urgency of someone who could have been a victim,” she writes.

“That’s an environment where, for me, it doesn’t suggest an urgency to be more accommodative in monetary policy.”

"The symptoms tend to start as kind of urinary urgency and frequency so people become unable to hold on to their urine," he said.

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Markets are expected to closely watch for signals that the central bank’s thinking on future cuts is shifting, as its urgency to support growth is ebbing, they said.

The report described February 2020 as a "lost month" and said the government's lack of urgency was "inexcusable".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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