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• Like so many things, this trend was born out of necessity.
  — Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Feb. 2023
• The change in metrics will happen out of necessity, the source said.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 28 Apr. 2023
• But one of those trips was to eat at a restaurant Bert saw in a movie, while others were made out of necessity.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 6 Dec. 2022
• Part of that is out of necessity due to injuries, but a larger factor is that those players have earned their spots on the depth chart.
  — Trevor Hass, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2022
• His style, then, might have grown partly out of necessity.
  — Alejandro Chacoff, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
• But in the middle of May, he was put into a swing starter-reliever role out of necessity because José Suarez was on the injured list.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
• Biles and Owens wed for the first time last month at a courthouse, the intimate occasion scheduled out of necessity.
  — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 10 May 2023
• There was no intention to putting him at running back, that happened out of necessity last year.
  — Dallas News, 20 Jan. 2023
• Anderson found success as a starter, transitioning out of the bullpen out of necessity for the Dodgers.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
• Kulwicki left Greenfield with no promises, built his own team out of necessity and won five races and the title before he was killed in a plane crash in 1993.
  — Dave Kallmann, Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2023
• The move to the Del Mar park, which allowed for social distancing, was born out of necessity during the pandemic.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2023
• The most marginalized in society are often the most resilient out of necessity!
  — Komal Minhas, Fortune, 10 May 2023
• Cessa, who moved into the Reds' rotation out of necessity because four starters went on the injured list in August, is making a case to stay there.
  — The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2022
• That move was born out of necessity after ace Jace Stoffal suffered a finger injury and the results have been critical for the Ducks.
  — oregonlive, 8 June 2023
• Cargo Pants The cargo pant was born out of necessity: military men needed somewhere to stow their gear.
  — Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 6 Mar. 2023
• In Jalisco, the dish is traditionally served as a stew made with goat meat, which initially was born out of necessity.
  — Janelle Davis, CNN, 22 Apr. 2023
• While under house arrest in Paris, Marie Antoinette assumed a more active role in her family, in part out of necessity.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Mar. 2023
• The upside was, out of necessity, everybody was around all aspects of production.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Mar. 2023
• At the onset of the pandemic, many organizations jumped headfirst into the cloud out of necessity and did not have time to create or enforce policies that would prevent data sprawl.
  — Dr. Tj Jiang, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• During the Depression, people ate wild-growing weeds such as dandelions out of necessity.
  — Gabriel Popkin, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022
• His collection of canes — likely used as an affectation rather than out of necessity — are sprinkled throughout.
  — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 14 Apr. 2022
• Early in the pandemic, many people started new businesses out of necessity amid a surge in layoffs and company closures.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2023
• The Takeaway This is a case of international sanctions and pressure pushing two bad actors together out of necessity.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 31 May 2023
• Something that came out of necessity for Plavsic, this could be a game changer for the beauty industry: consciously-made, designed to be recycled, and offering a cleaner approach to skincare.
  — Esha Chhabra, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
• As a small country with a Russian goliath for a neighbor, Finland has, out of necessity, always pursued very pragmatic politics.
  — Marja Heinonen, CNN, 14 Apr. 2022
• But resilience is exhausting when repeatedly called upon — a trait honed out of necessity, foisted upon those with no choice but to navigate scarcity.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 30 Mar. 2023
• My expertise on garden hoses developed out of necessity.
  — Kate Morgan, Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
• The film’s sequences were shot in chronological order, an unconventional choice born out of necessity, as the set replicating the luxurious Manhattan apartment gradually degraded as production wore on.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 19 Feb. 2023
• The transfer portal has irrevocably changed college basketball, causing a fresh cataclysm every spring as top players scope for grander opportunities and top programs radically reshape their rosters — sometimes by choice, sometimes out of necessity.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 31 Mar. 2023

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