exigency
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The court’s consideration of this motion, moreover, was hardly warp speed for a case of this importance and exigency.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2024
"We have absolute faith in Australians understanding the exigency of this reform, why we need it, and we believe they'll come on board and vote yes," Davis said.
From Reuters • Jun. 23, 2023
“Associated in my entire family’s mind with exigency, a thing that nobody likes!!”
From Slate • Oct. 15, 2022
It is only to say that it reflects the exigency of the crisis — not some essential nobility of character that this country lacks.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 10, 2022
A translation of Vondel, from what has been said, is, accordingly, in a certain sense, a rehabilitation, a restoration to a former status that through the exigency of events has been lost.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den
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