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exigencies

noun

plural of exigency

as in crises

a time or state of affairs requiring prompt or decisive action the exigencies requiring snap decisions that traders on the stock exchange face every day

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Recent Examples of exigencies Potential finalists will be notified via email and will be required to complete and return an Affidavit of Eligibility, License of Work and Release of Liability/Publicity within three (3) days of date of notification, or a shorter time if required by exigencies, or a runner-up may be selected. — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026 The exigencies of the Revolution lead to promising more people representation. — Ken Burns, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026 In West Texas, some locals were hopeful that the exigencies of life in a rural area, where recordkeeping can be rudimentary and property boundaries aren’t always clear, might stymie the project, at least for a little while. — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 14 May 2026 The likelihood of success in a second round of talks increases with the political exigencies and condition of those at the table. — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2026 Other neighbors were equally desperate, including Mohammad Izzo, 69, a school caretaker forced by the exigencies of war to become a groundskeeper for a makeshift cemetery at the campus located a short distance from Abdullah’s house. — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026 For certain great artists, Meis believes, the creative act is a safe harbor where life’s pressures, exigencies, and calamities aren’t so much denied or resolved as reimagined as pictorial dramas. — Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026 It will be encumbered neither by norms nor the exigencies that compel speech in a democratic society. — Casey Ryan Kelly, The Conversation, 9 Mar. 2026 You logical minds cannot understand the exigencies of art. — Literary Hub, 26 Feb. 2026

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French government bonds again sold off on growing concern that cascading political and fiscal crises would hammer the EU’s second-biggest economy and potentially ripple across the bloc.

— Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 20 Oct. 2026
The relationship between financial crises and imperial strategy preoccupied Marxist scholars for more than a century.

— NIALL FERGUSON, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026

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Criss’ proposal to put financial limits on the Hope Scholarship program came as West Virginia public schools arrived at a dangerous crossroads.

— Henry Culvyhouse, ProPublica, 19 Oct. 2026
But after the recent mega-sale of much of his Wynwood portfolio to hedge fund executive Ken Griffin, Mana is at a crossroads.

— Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2026

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