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
Instead, this concealment had been “only from the exigencies of the mid-twentieth century when each one of us—at least those of us who are my age—seems fated for a life which is no longer sharable.”
From Slate • Feb. 10, 2024
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
Not even if home influences have laid a sound basis of moral habits are these sufficient reserves for the exigencies of teaching.
From Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School by McMurry, Charles A. (Charles Alexander)