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a practical action — especially one that accepts negative tradeoffs due to circumstances
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convenient, speedy, or practical
or:
convenient, speedy, or practical
- He had not been there since his first interview with Bulstrode in the morning, having been found at the Hospital by the banker's messenger; and for the first time he was returning to his home without the vision of any expedient in the background which left him a hope of raising money enough to deliver him from the coming destitution of everything which made his married life tolerable—everything which saved him and Rosamond from that bare isolation in which they would be forced to...Book 7 — Two Temptations (67% in)
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