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urgency

[ur-juhn-see]

noun

plural

urgencies 
  1. urgent character; imperativeness; insistence; importunateness.

  2. urgencies, urgent requirements or needs.



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Other 51Թ Forms

  • superurgency noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of urgency1

First recorded in 1530–40; from Late Latin urgentia “pressure,” from urgent-, stem of ܰŧԲ “pressing” ( urgent ) + -ia -ia
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To underline the renewed urgency, a senior Israeli military official has said that there was information that Iran had enough material to make fifteen nuclear bombs within days.

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With howled, deadpan lyrics like on “Join in the Chant,” McCarthy set a template for how punk’s urgency could lock into dance music’s meticulousness.

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“There were some political tensions between state and local elected officials. But both the governor and the mayor set those aside very quickly, given the urgency of the situation.”

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When Michael Kopech walked the bases loaded in the seventh inning, Roberts responded with the necessary degree of urgency rather than allow the recently activated Kopech to try to pitch his way out of trouble.

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In the poems of Emily Dickinson, em dashes signpost alertness and urgency as they halt sentences and leave readers hanging at the ends of lines, hoping for a resolution.

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