Definition of URGENCY

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Patients typically experience symptoms resembling those of a urinary tract infection, minus the actual infection: the burning, the urgency, the constant need to pee, the overall pelvic pain and discomfort. — Simone Gorrindo, The Cut, "Living With a Disease That Feels Like a Never-ending UTI," 3 July 2018 Driven by a peacemaker’s passion and righteous urgency, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy emerges as a red-hot rebel in a Roy Lichtenstein pop art print. — Alice George, Smithsonian, "On the Eve of his Death, Robert Kennedy Was a Whirlwind of Empathy and Internal Strife," 7 June 2018 His effort has an existential urgency, because Abu Dhabi—like Saudi Arabia—offers something the world apparently has too much of: oil. — Bloomberg.com, "A Mideast Energy Giant Seizes New Energy Future," 10 May 2018 There was little sense of urgency, no sense of high stakes. — Marcus Overton, sandiegouniontribune.com, "San Diego Symphony blazes through Shostakovich as Jahja Ling debuts as Conductor Laureate," 21 Apr. 2018 But there was a new, subdued urgency to those opening seconds. — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, "With NEXT update, No Man’s Sky finally brings it all together," 6 Aug. 2018 Nevertheless, there is a new urgency to reform these days. — The Economist, "Britain’s ambitious apprenticeship reforms are in trouble," 19 Apr. 2018 The subject took on greater urgency amid the AIDS epidemic, which claimed the life of one of Warhol’s boyfriends. — Brenda Cronin, WSJ, "Warhol Takes New York, Again," 26 Oct. 2018 Centineo’s rise to fame is a kind of case study in the appeal of the wholesome internet boyfriend, and why this archetype has taken on a particular urgency here in the draining final months of 2018. — Constance Grady, Vox, "Noah Centineo and the rise of the wholesome internet boyfriend, explained," 28 Sep. 2018

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