exigent circumstances
C2CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Emergency conditions that justify a warrantless search or entry.
They claimed exigent circumstances, arguing the evidence was being flushed as they knocked.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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