We've come to deliver an urgent message.
an urgent appeal for assistance
He addressed us in an urgent manner.
An urgent voice came over the intercom, telling us to leave the building immediately.
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Deepfake impersonation turns every phone call, video message or urgent request into a potential attack.—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 20 Dec. 2025 Yet here, where the need is just as urgent, the CPUC seems content to stall progress.—Javier Palomarez, Sacbee.com, 19 Dec. 2025 This sentiment is deeply ingrained and persists despite the continent’s urgent need to raise funds to rearm, replenish stocks, and modernize its defense industrial base since the onset of Russia’s war in Ukraine.—Douglas Rediker, Foreign Affairs, 17 Dec. 2025 On the afternoon of January 29, 2024, call handlers from humanitarian aid organisation the Palestine Red Crescent Society were connected with someone in urgent need of help.—Olivia Marks, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for urgent
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Etymology
Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin urgent-, urgens, present participle of urgēre
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