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

“I’m going to put a functional city above what might be more politically expedient for me,” McOsker said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2025

The fight was finally settled in 1879 with the simple expedient of coming up with a new period, the Ordovician, to be inserted between the two.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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