expedient

Example Sentences

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This provided a “logical and most expedient opportunity” to get more info on what documents existed and pave the way for a consent search.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From Barron's

Council officers considered whether enforcement action should have been taken, but recommended "it would not be expedient for the council to take any formal enforcement action against the event organiser", calling the breach "minor".

From BBC

Stanton is a bit of an elitist; Anthony actually comes from a more reformist, anti-slavery tradition, but she still makes those expedient compromises, which I think costs the suffrage movement.

From Salon

For school populations still processing the traumas of the deadly Palisades fire, an expedient return to classrooms has been important.

From Los Angeles Times