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expedient

[ik-spee-dee-uhnt] / ɪkˈspi di ənt /




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People will readily share their data — even when it comes to their health — for things they value, like better service, cheaper prices, and expedient convenience.

From MarketWatch Jan. 21, 2026

One expedient way to get more done is, he suggests, to turn deliberate intentions into defaults: “Activities you once had to muster the motivation to do will, given enough repetition, become habits.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 1, 2026

Much more expedient, and more favorable from an equity investors’ standpoint, is to continue to issue debt.

From Barron's Oct. 31, 2025

“I’m going to put a functional city above what might be more politically expedient for me,” McOsker said.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 4, 2025

Once again, two paths had opened before me, and I could take the expedient one, or the one that required courage.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

For a time it appeared that Washington was prepared to buy into this set of expedients.

From Salon Oct. 6, 2015

All the things we did were great expedients, given the terrible problems we had, and it’s working after a fashion.

From Forbes Apr. 13, 2015

While many such initiatives may have set out with good intentions to be the former, it seems that commercial expedients are increasingly forcing them to become the latter.

From The Guardian Jun. 21, 2013

These expedients would work, but they’d be horrendously inefficient compared with the modern agricultural, packaging, and transportation methods.

From Slate Jul. 18, 2012

He resented having “to resort to temporary expedients merely to make a poor show for the opening.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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