as in gravity
the condition of being very important and needing immediate attention
The urgency of the situation meant that we needed to start right away.
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Recent Examples of urgency
The world around them does not dictate their pose, and there is rarely urgency in their expression.
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Najha Zigbi-Johnson, Essence, 30 Apr. 2025
Motivated by the urgency of the situation, Santiesteban led a successful campaign to open a connecting bridge along Northwest 170th Street.
—Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2025
Budget cuts, overwhelmed courts, and a lack of political urgency have all made the problem worse.
—Cottie Petrie Norris, Oc Register, 28 Apr. 2025
Painted when Basquiat was just 20 years old, the five-foot-wide piece captures the heat and urgency of his breakout moment: a frenetic, mythic figure scrawled in oilstick on paper, hovering, as Jeffery Deitch once put it, between the street and the studio.
—Daniel Cassady For Artnews, Robb Report, 26 Apr. 2025
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Najha Zigbi-Johnson, Essence, 30 Apr. 2025
Motivated by the urgency of the situation, Santiesteban led a successful campaign to open a connecting bridge along Northwest 170th Street.
—Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2025
Budget cuts, overwhelmed courts, and a lack of political urgency have all made the problem worse.
—Cottie Petrie Norris, Oc Register, 28 Apr. 2025
Painted when Basquiat was just 20 years old, the five-foot-wide piece captures the heat and urgency of his breakout moment: a frenetic, mythic figure scrawled in oilstick on paper, hovering, as Jeffery Deitch once put it, between the street and the studio.
—Daniel Cassady For Artnews, Robb Report, 26 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for urgency
Noun
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At each vote, a cardinal will write his choice on a piece of paper, process up to Michaelangelo’s giant fresco of the last judgment – which serves as a reminder of the gravity and sacredness of their responsibility – and drop his ballot in a chalice.—
Peter Pinedo,
FOXNews.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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The real-life developments have lent new gravity to the film's depiction of the papal election process—a secretive, tradition-laden event now in motion in Rome.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The lower the figure of magnitude, the brighter the star and Sirius is one of only four stars seen from our earthly perspective with a negative magnitude (-1.45).—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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The renovation comes after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey in 2023, destroying hundreds of buildings.—
Ashley J. DiMella Fox News,
FOXNews.com,
23 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Covid-19 underscored the importance of diagnostics.—
Jennifer Lotito,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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This program will cover strategies for maximizing productivity in small spaces, organic and regenerative gardening techniques, and the importance of building healthy soil.—
Ut Community Press,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In the face of tragedy, Dess’s narrator memorably dramatizes the anxiety-inducing exigencies of the creative arts, and the need of artists to remain focussed on their craft.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2025
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In addition, institutions that reduce or close a program, department, college, or position because of a reinvestment plan would be able to proceed with policies and procedures associated with a declaration of financial exigency.—
Michael T. Nietzel,
Forbes,
3 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The course is all about immersing students into the significance of wine beyond the glass and to view it as an agricultural product that livelihoods rely on; to showcase this, Suckling hones in on the stories and personalities behind some of Tuscany’s iconic vineyards.—
Jillian Dara,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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The significance of this, to Gribetz, is a matter not of race but of class.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The Trump administration downplayed the first breach amid numerous officials’ insistence that nothing classified had been shared.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr. 2025
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The economic promise of Dead Sea potash played a key role in Britain’s insistence on governing Palestine after World War I. But extracting the mineral posed a challenge.—
Made by History,
Time,
15 Apr. 2025
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“Urgency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/urgency. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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