as in emergency
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Noun
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Ensure your smartphone is enabled with wireless emergency alerts (WEA) and keep your ringer on loud.—
Ahmad Bajjey,
CBS News,
14 Apr. 2026 -
And nothing — no military coalition, no legal invocation, no emergency session of the UN Security Council — has been able to stop it.—
Wael Mahdi,
semafor.com,
13 Apr. 2026
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Dyer notes that Cox may well have been confused by the mental and physical trauma of the sinking and the deprivations of five days adrift.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
3 Apr. 2026
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Marcos Javier Andrade faces one count of deprivation of rights under color of law and one count of use and discharge of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Apr. 2026
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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
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The bill would declare a state of financial exigency for five years, or until the university’s finances are stable.—
Kathryn Muchnick,
Louisville Courier Journal,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Rainy day.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rainy%20day. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.
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