Synonyms for exigent
ˈɛk sɪ dʒəntex·i·gent

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1. clamant, crying, exigent, insistent, instantadjective

   demanding attention

   "clamant needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need"

   Synonyms:
   instant, clamant, insistent, instant(a), egregious, glaring, gross, flagrant, strident, repetitive, vociferous, crying(a), blatant, clamorous, instantaneous, exacting, rank, crying, inst

   Antonyms:
   beseeching, pleading, undemanding, imploring

2. exigent, exactingadjective

   requiring precise accuracy

   "an exacting job"; "became more exigent over his pronunciation"

   Synonyms:
   exacting, instant, fastidious, crying, clamant, insistent, stern, strict

   Antonyms:
   imploring, beseeching, undemanding, pleading

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1. exigentadjective

   Synonyms:
   urgent, pressing

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1. Cheryl Dorsey:

   Why didn't they deploy a Taser? If they didn't have one on scene, they should have had one with an officer who was responding as backup. What was the urgency? There was no exigent circumstance that the officers could not have waited until a Taser arrived on scene.

2. David Mamet:

   The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.

3. Earl Gray:

   In the walk of life, nobody's perfect, you can be trained forever and under exigent circumstances make a mistake.

4. Ted Cruz:

   I voted with the administration on the substance because of the threat of Iran but I'll tell you from my end, if the administration does it again and there is not a live and exigent emergency, you will not have my vote and I predict you will not have the vote of a number of other Republicans as well. The simpler process is follow the damn law and respect it.

5. Cheryl Dorsey:

   Where was the Taser? why didn't they deploy a Taser? If they didn't have one on scene, they should have had one with an officer who was responding as backup. What was the urgency? There was no exigent circumstance that the officers could not have waited until a Taser arrived on scene.