expediency
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The Bears haven’t found the same expediency in Illinois despite buying a parcel of land in Arlington Heights, a Chicago suburb, in 2021.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
Apple is pacing itself, putting user experience and privacy above expediency.
From Barron's ● Dec. 5, 2025
Barr, which made clear that immigration enforcement must be tethered to the Constitution, not expediency.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2025
However, Jacobs and Roach refuse to sacrifice Violet’s character for the film’s expediency.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2025
Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
And in our contacts with Mexican people we had been faced with a change in expediencies.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2020
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
It criminalizes routine online behaviors and expediencies, like sharing passwords or violating a site’s terms of service.
From Slate ● Apr. 24, 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
It was too familiar; it signified to her shifts, privations, expediencies, rude humiliations, and rebuffs.
From The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax by Holme Lee
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