expedient

"If we set aside the rules when we deem expedient, why can't our adversaries?"

From Barron's ● Apr. 2, 2026

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 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

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 10, 2012

Much has been written about Italian individualism, its expedients, its limitations, and its consequences.

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2011

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