urgency

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Long breaks aren’t unheard of on TV, but they’re rarely this long for a show that’s still trying to hold on to cultural urgency.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

“We do feel an urgency to this conversation,” Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer, told The Wall Street Journal recently.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

“While we acknowledge that Anthropic could still be engineering its own cyber products in lower-barrier areas, we see the urgency of the partnership as indicative of core cyber’s relative insulation from AI disintermediation,” he said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

Today, as we shout with joy that Christ is risen, let us pray and call with renewed urgency for an end to the violence and destruction in the Middle East and the Gulf.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

The intricacies were lost to him, the urgency had died.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan