as in crisis
a time or state of affairs requiring prompt or decisive action
an alert, quick-thinking girl who is good to have around in an emergency
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Recent Examples of emergency
While rare, seek emergency care for severe symptoms like difficulty breathing, chest pain, or loss of consciousness.
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Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 11 July 2025
Flood emergency communications: Legislation to strengthen emergency communications and other response infrastructure in flood-prone areas throughout Texas.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 11 July 2025
Broadway Cares also awards annual grants to over 450 AIDS and family service organizations in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., providing lifesaving medication, healthy meals, counseling and emergency assistance.
—Jane Levere, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
The river was rising, and the situation was quickly developing into an emergency; Hunt, a town of about thirteen hundred people along the banks of the Guadalupe River, sits in what’s known as Texas’s flash-flood alley.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
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Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 11 July 2025
Flood emergency communications: Legislation to strengthen emergency communications and other response infrastructure in flood-prone areas throughout Texas.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 11 July 2025
Broadway Cares also awards annual grants to over 450 AIDS and family service organizations in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., providing lifesaving medication, healthy meals, counseling and emergency assistance.
—Jane Levere, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
The river was rising, and the situation was quickly developing into an emergency; Hunt, a town of about thirteen hundred people along the banks of the Guadalupe River, sits in what’s known as Texas’s flash-flood alley.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for emergency
crisis
Noun
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The Carpenters’ involvement has given some Democratic lawmakers the opportunity to address the housing crisis with the blessing of a construction union.—
CalMatters,
Mercury News,
13 July 2025
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Instead of fixing California, Newsom has been busy creating new crises.—
Melissa Melendez,
Oc Register,
13 July 2025
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“Emergency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emergency. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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