expediency

The arrangement with Russia, which began as economic and military expediency appears to be developing into something deeper and longer-term.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Print and cinema’s strings are being pulled by the grubby, greedy hands of executives who care far more about money and expediency than art and process.

From Salon ● May 1, 2026

Whenever we start locking folks up — whether it’s in mental wards or immigration detention centers or jails — we should be careful that expediency isn’t trumping ethics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

Critics said the move stripped the office of much of its authority, particularly to enforce responsible AI standards, in favor of expediency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

She then took another line of expediency, and looking into the doubtful room, observed,

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

And in our contacts with Mexican people we had been faced with a change in expediencies.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2020

In le Carré’s novels, people who long ago became spies out of patriotism or some other strain of idealism find themselves hopelessly compromised by the expediencies of the work itself.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2018

The film examine three discrete chapters in Jobs' life, and some believed that, whatever narrative expediencies it provided, that structure could be a liability.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2015

Mr. Murswiek criticized the central bank for viewing “economic expediencies as the only thing worth caring about.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2014

You must in this permit me to judge of expediencies.

From The Leopard Woman by Stewart Edward White