How to Use exigent in a Sentence

exigent

adjective
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  • Benowitz added that because Edwards is dead, there would not be any exigent circumstances for a search in this case.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
  • And does the close call give ammunition to the exigent X-Factor calls for Sandy Brondello to be replaced?
    — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The smallest exigent nuclear plant in the world produces 11 megawatts, and even Russia’s new floating power plant makes over 30.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2020
  • By running mass spectrometry on one of the site’s exigent 52 stones, the researchers were able to match its trace elements to a site in England where that rock was likely mined.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2020
  • Police said exigent circumstances and the fact that the building appeared to be abandoned led them to enter without a warrant.
    — Ngan Ho, Baltimore Sun, 2 June 2022
  • Cox stressed that, like the cell-site simulator, covert devices can only be used with a court order, or in exigent circumstances.
    — Ivy Scott, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
  • That theme is developed under more exigent circumstances in the novel’s second part, set in Japan.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2020
  • People in exigent circumstances shouldn’t have to contend with such challenges.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2021
  • What should be front and center in Air Force decision-making are the nation’s exigent defense interests.
    — Tom Rogan, Washington Examiner, 10 Dec. 2020
  • But from his vantage on the evanescent bridge to maturity, So is puzzling out some big questions, ones that might be exigent from different vantages at any age.
    — Deborah Eisenberg, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2021
  • In August 2017, Judge Hamilton ruled that the use of the devices, also known as stingrays, normally require a warrant but that one was not needed in this instance due to exigent circumstances.
    — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Both Clinton and Nixon weathered impeachment in their second terms, where the more exigent liability was the final midterm election of their term.
    — Chris Wilson, Time, 1 Oct. 2019
  • The opinion, by Justice Thomas, left open the question of whether other rationales, such as exigent circumstances that leave no time to obtain a warrant, might apply when life or safety are at stake.
    — Jess Bravin, WSJ, 17 May 2021
  • The future protesters are picturing must be more exigent simply because the past has already fallen away.
    — Zoë Hu, The New Republic, 10 June 2020
  • Exceptions will be made for infants and people with exigent health circumstances.
    — al, 26 July 2021
  • Pressed for examples, McManus said an exigent circumstance could involve a suspect who threatened to set his or her house on fire or kill family members.
    — Emilie Eaton, ExpressNews.com, 25 Aug. 2020
  • The coronavirus pandemic still poses an exigent threat, too.
    — Brianna Milord, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Depression is a perfectly legitimate subject for fiction, of course, and God knows it’s an exigent aspect of modern life.
    — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2021
  • In general, in such circumstances a warrant is required, although the Supreme Court has held that under certain exigent circumstances, a warrant is not required.
    — Ariane De Vogue, CNN, 1 June 2021
  • Anything less than that would — bar exigent circumstances — be a disappointment.
    — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Under the Fourth Amendment, arrests must be supported by a judicial finding of probable cause (in the form of a warrant), absent exigent circumstances (like a bona fide emergency) that were not present here.
    — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 15 Feb. 2017
  • What’s been reported about Trump’s decision-making process also suggests that the strike wasn’t driven by exigent circumstances.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Before that happens, some publishers are clearly kicking up a storm, using the leverage that comes from the prospect of willful infringement damages to put Spotify on the defensive at this exigent moment.
    — Eriq Gardner, Billboard, 13 Sep. 2017
  • The expansion of unemployment, initially seen as an exigent backstop, was now portrayed as a golden parachute that encouraged people not to work.
    — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
  • For one of Oregon’s most prolific playwrights, and a crackerjack interpreter of exigent issues, this is a disappointing dabble in the wrong direction.
    — oregonlive, 16 May 2023
  • This academic year, schools were instructed by the Legislature not to go online, with a requirement that at least four days a week be held in-person unless the four state leaders gave express permission in an exigent circumstance.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Similar exigent circumstances are standard in other city and state policies.
    — NBC News, 17 Apr. 2022
  • The policy required that officers announce their presence prior to entry in all but exigent circumstances.
    — CBS News, 5 Feb. 2022
  • For a property to be searched without a warrant there needs to be probable cause and exigent circumstances, for example, entering a home or car when someone's life is at risk or if someone is destroying evidence.
    — Brianna Griff, Chron, 9 Feb. 2023
  • In addition, there can be exigent and unforeseen circumstances.
    — Andy Wright, Slate Magazine, 10 Oct. 2017

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