exigencies

Example Sentences

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"To spare them from the exigencies of the bill should be done on the grounds that membership of this House would allow them to maintain more easily the contacts that help them perform their duties."

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

It will be encumbered neither by norms nor the exigencies that compel speech in a democratic society.

From Salon • Mar. 10, 2026

The court has previously upheld limited emergency entries, but always with clearly defined exigencies, not the unbounded, unverifiable standard Montana now asks it to adopt.

From Slate • Jul. 3, 2025

All the hardships that a winter storm typically delivers were compounded and complicated by the exigencies of war.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2023

I thought about that, and it occurred to me that he retained something of the artillery sergeant still, necessarily adapted a little to the exigencies of American blast-stoves.

From Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker by Walker, Charles Rumford