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Six example sentences with exigent, each labelled with its topic.
Officers entered without a warrant, arguing the situation was exigent because smoke was already coming from the upstairs window.
Law
The ward treats exigent cases first, so a stable fracture can wait four hours behind a suspected stroke.
Medicine
Payroll on Friday is exigent; the rebrand can slip a quarter without anyone outside the marketing team noticing.
Business
The margin call was exigent, and the fund had until the opening bell to raise cash or watch positions get sold.
Finance
The outage became exigent at nine, when every login attempt began failing and the support queue doubled in minutes.
Technology
The governor called the levee repair exigent and moved money from the road budget without waiting for the legislature.
Politics
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