exigence

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In Straight’s world, raising each other’s kids, feeding each other’s elders, keeping each other’s secrets, mourning the dead and fighting like hell for the living is not called exigence.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2025

Headlines blared things like “Aliens, Ahoy!” but the military was likely talking about much more mundane encounters, according to explanations that followed about the exigence of the guidelines.

From Slate • Dec. 30, 2019

But whenever I go there, I feel this fierce sense of American exigence just relent.

From The Guardian • Jun. 16, 2012

Then there is the profound and imperishable religious exigence which constantly expresses itself everywhere, even though trampled down by violence or skillfully smothered.

From Time Magazine Archive

They had, in this exigence, some comforts, however, which might a little uphold their spirits; and without which, indeed, their condition must have been deplorable and desperate.

From A New Voyage Round the World by a Course Never Sailed Before by Defoe, Daniel