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Recent Examples of exigent Advertisement Still, Bass is not the first California political leader to lead in absentia during a moment of exigent crisis. Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2025 Employers must keep the position open during this response period unless exigent circumstances require the role to be filled immediately. Alonzo Martinez, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024 An unwelcome impression begins to gather, that these places, these people, are being relegated to bit players in the larger, more exigent story of Coates’s intellectual evolution, his contemplation of his career and legacy. Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024 That law does not tightly define the circumstances under which presidents may determine that an emergency exists, leaving them with essentially unfettered discretion to unlock exigent powers for themselves. Charlie Savage, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for exigent
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Adjective
  • The vet advised going to the ER, where staff treated it as an urgent case due to potential heart issues.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025
  • If a passenger or crew member requires urgent medical attention that cannot be managed onboard, the captain may divert the ship to the nearest port with adequate facilities.
    David Nikel, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • On Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the company’s acute myeloid leukemia drug CER-1236 an orphan drug designation .
    Brian Evans, CNBC, 18 June 2025
  • With internal travel banned and markets shuttered, food shortages became acute.
    Will Ripley, CNN Money, 18 June 2025

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“Exigent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exigent. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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