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The researchers expected single people to lower their standards given the exigent circumstances.

From Time

That is because cases of fleeing misdemeanants will almost always also involve a recognized exigent circumstance — such as a risk of escape, destruction of evidence, or harm to others — that will still justify warrantless entry into a home.

The need to accelerate the vaccination program before the lure of summer intercedes has never been more exigent—nor has the imperative to remain cautious and patient, even when the end appears to be in sight.

From Time

Jones’s omnibus bill includes the repeal of the bill of rights but also a body camera requirement, a use-of-force policy that bans no-knock warrants except under “exigent circumstances” and bans chokeholds, and other changes.

Officers deserve “substantial discretion to analyze the situation, as the court has always said, but do require a showing of actual exigent circumstances,” Fisher said.

He counsels me not to be exigent in my terms; if he knew me better, perhaps, he would not have deemed the advice so necessary.

Are we too exigent when we implore the whites to preach by example?

The more modest and simple the Rav, the haughtier and more exigent the Rebbetzin.

Nay, because Slavery is powerful, because the Enterprise is difficult, therefore is the duty of all more exigent.

But it is a long and exigent part, and there were times in the play when her physical strength was overtaxed.

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On this page you'll find 74 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to exigent, such as: acute, burning, clamant, clamorous, constraining, and critical.

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

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