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

Maybe all we want as an audience is a place to hang out with our favorite characters, suspended from any exigencies of time or plot.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2024

Because when you write a Constitution and you write a fundamental law of a country, it’s not like a federal law that you are passing to meet the exigencies of the moment.

From Slate • Feb. 5, 2024

Never before in all our exigencies was such a feeling of despair expressed on our countenances.

From North-Pole Voyages by Mudge, Zachariah Atwell