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acute, burning, clamant, compelling, critical, crying, dire, emergent, exigent, imperative, imperious, importunate, instant, necessitous, pressing
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Extensive flooding was believed to have contaminated many wells with salt water, creating an urgent need for clean water. — CBS News, "Devastating images show Dorian ravaging the Bahamas," 3 Sep. 2019 One of India's most urgent needs is to reform its labor market, according to Saha of Ashoka University. — Rishi Iyengar, CNN, "India is trying to stave off an economic crisis. But it needs to do a lot more," 29 Aug. 2019 The judge, alluding to their urgent need for medical care, ordered mediation. — Washington Post, "Sick and dying workers demand help after cleaning coal ash," 28 Aug. 2019 With poetry, moments of silence and political speeches about the urgent need to fight climate change, Icelandic officials, activists and others bade goodbye to what once was a glacier. — Seth Borenstein, USA TODAY, "Iceland activists, officials hold funeral for death of Okjokull glacier," 19 Aug. 2019 All arguments to the contrary ignore the urgent need for resolution, the inherent suitability of the state court to bring about that resolution, and the importance of that resolution to the future conduct of these bankruptcy cases. — J.d. Morris, SFChronicle.com, "PG&E’s role in the 2017 Tubbs Fire to go to jury trial," 16 Aug. 2019 The presence of microplastics in the Arctic also highlights the urgent need to address rising rates of plastic production and leaky waste management systems in order to reduce the amount of plastic escaping into the environment, Allen says. — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, "Airborne Plastic Is Blowing All the Way to the Arctic," 14 Aug. 2019 Finally, Trump has already passed on the most urgent need in the issue: a restoration of the Clinton-era ban on assault weapons, which mass shooters used, in the span of a week, in El Paso, Texas; Dayton, Ohio; and Gilroy, California. — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, "Some Reasons to Be Skeptical About Trump’s Embrace of Gun Control," 9 Aug. 2019 Earlier this year, some experts also worried about overspending on data sharing when there are other urgent needs, such as basic studies of genes that cause pediatric cancers. — Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, "Researchers weigh in on Trump’s $500 million plan to share childhood cancer data," 5 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'urgent.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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