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
The political exigencies that faced the American literary public were of a different set.
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Elaine L. Wang
september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Elaine L. Wang
september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for exigencies
Noun
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That move set in motion two decades of big inflations, serial currency and banking crises, and debt defaults.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
8 Oct. 2025
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Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman was a leader of the Janjaweed militia, which killed hundreds of thousands of members of Darfur’s non-Arab population in the early 2000s, sparking one of the world’s gravest and most enduring humanitarian crises.—
Jeronimo Gonzalez,
semafor.com,
7 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Our institutions – businesses, universities, and society – stand at this crossroads.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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That geography has long placed the Central Asian nation at a crossroads, straddling both Europe and Asia.—
Nina Subkhanberdina,
CNN Money,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Exigencies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exigencies. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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