exigence
- a variation of exigency.
Example Sentences
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In Straight’s world, raising each other’s kids, feeding each other’s elders, keeping each other’s secrets, mourning the dead and fighting like hell for the living is not called exigence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2025
Headlines blared things like “Aliens, Ahoy!” but the military was likely talking about much more mundane encounters, according to explanations that followed about the exigence of the guidelines.
From Slate ● Dec. 30, 2019
But whenever I go there, I feel this fierce sense of American exigence just relent.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2012
Then there is the profound and imperishable religious exigence which constantly expresses itself everywhere, even though trampled down by violence or skillfully smothered.
From Time Magazine Archive
Promise me, Mr Newland, that upon any reverse or exigence, you will apply to me.”
From Japhet in Search of a Father by Marryat, Frederick
