as in urgent
needing immediate attention
started his workday with a flood of exigent matters that required his quick decision
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During the first Trump administration, there were at least 63 planned and five exigent ICE arrests at or near a sensitive location, according to ICE data covering the period from Oct. 1, 2017, through Oct. 31, 2020.
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Julia Ainsley, NBC News, 11 Dec. 2024
Bonner later defended the use of force, saying exigent circumstances allowed the officers to go beyond policy guidelines for using Tasers and prone restraint because Celestin posed a threat.
—Reese Dunklin, Sun Sentinel, 14 May 2024
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
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Julia Ainsley, NBC News, 11 Dec. 2024
Bonner later defended the use of force, saying exigent circumstances allowed the officers to go beyond policy guidelines for using Tasers and prone restraint because Celestin posed a threat.
—Reese Dunklin, Sun Sentinel, 14 May 2024
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
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“Exigent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exigent. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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