expedient

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

From Barron's ● Apr. 2, 2026

I’m momentarily reminded of the daughter of a British greengrocer, Margaret Thatcher, who, early in her political career, established her economic credentials by the simple expedient of knowing the price of butter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 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

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

“You cannot think how I have been dreading that it would be thought expedient that I should be sent to an ‘institution,’” he wrote on September 26.

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

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

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