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It was a necessary expedient to get the job done.expedient = practical but not ideal
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Until the new computer system is in place, e-mailing sensitive data will be a necessary expedient.
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Under the circumstances, it was expedient to express loyalty.†
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With more time, diplomacy might have worked, but war was a necessary expedient for preserving power.†
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It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.† (source)
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[King] Henry had once been a sincere Catholic and had even authored a book strongly criticizing Luther, but he later found it expedient and profitable to break with the Papacy.† (source)
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The Constitution requires that the president "from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient."† (source)
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Under the Protestant Henry IV, king of France, the Huguenots triumphed for a short time, but as Paris and more than nine-tenths of the French people remained Roman Catholic, the king deemed it expedient to become a convert to Roman Catholicism.† (source)
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He declared them to be, like all other morals, merely an expedient for protecting a certain type of man.† (source)expedient = convenience
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By building up a series of imaginary expedients to prevent "the worst coming to the worst" ... (source)expedients = practical actions
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We are very pleased with your expediency. (source)expediency = speediness
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'It was said once to me that it is inexpedient to write the names of strangers concerned in any matter, because by the naming of names many good plans are brought to confusion.'† (source)inexpedient = not practicalstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inexpedient means not and reverses the meaning of expedient. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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Expedience still demands decisions which will one day be judged unjust. (source)Expedience = the need for practical actions
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As soon as Mabel believed that her companion was sufficiently frightened to make her wary, she threw out some hints touching the inexpediency of letting the soldiers know the extent of their own fears.† (source)inexpediency = the quality of being impracticalstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inexpediency means not and reverses the meaning of expediency. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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Thus in the last months of 1967 I began thinking in earnest about Sophie and Nathan's sorrowful destiny; I knew I would have to deal with it eventually, just as I had dealt those many years before, so successfully and expediently, with another young woman I had loved beyond hope—the doomed Maria Hunt.† (source)expediently = with speed and practicality
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his actions were generally dictated by chance expediencies rather than based on any formal plan. (source)expediencies = actions that are convenient
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