expedient
Example Sentences
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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
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 • Dec. 18, 2025
Much more expedient, and more favorable from an equity investors’ standpoint, is to continue to issue debt.
From Barron's • Oct. 31, 2025
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
But Athena poured a sea fog around him as he went— her love’s expedient, that no jeering sailor should halt the man or challenge him for luck.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.