How to Use born of necessity in a Sentence

born of necessity

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  • The lineup change, born of necessity rather than choice, proved a good one.
    Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
  • His first retail venture—that roadside stall—was born of necessity.
    Ram Anand, Fortune Asia, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Gordon said those skills, born of necessity, are what set his teachers apart from many in suburban districts.
    Leila Atassi, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2022
  • This pragmatism, born of necessity, will always be in fashion.
    Michael Kimmage, The New Republic, 26 Jan. 2021
  • This entrepreneurial bent, often born of necessity, goes back a long way.
    New York Times, 17 Dec. 2021
  • The quilters are Black women descended from slaves, and their craft is a tradition born of necessity.
    Longreads, 1 Mar. 2024
  • For Jordyn, the need to clear capacity for the Black trans community was born of necessity.
    Essence, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The graduate of Trinity High School in Euless said the protest was born of necessity.
    Rebecca Aguilar, Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2022
  • For these farmers, the solar irrigation revolution in Yemen is born of necessity.
    Fred Pearce, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2024
  • In some sense, that approach was born of necessity once producers realized original cast member Lizzy Caplan wouldn’t be able to return.
    WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Ingenuity born of necessity pushed many to repurpose consumer technology in life-or-death scenarios.
    Valerie Hopkins, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Legend has it that the McRib was born of necessity in 1981 during a shortage of the chicken meat used to make McNuggets.
    Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Mating only occurs during specific times of the year, and female frogs are often largely outnumbered by their male counterparts, so the rivalry is born of necessity — better to be overzealous than sleep on the prize.
    Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Southern California’s assortment of water supplies was born of necessity.
    Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Sep. 2022
  • During a recent panel discussion about the popularity of pods among black families, Lakisha Young of Oakland Reach, a parent-advocacy group, said the movement was born of necessity.
    Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022

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