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"urgent" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often pressing (8 letters).
Definitions
compelling immediate action
Word origin
Borrowed from Middle French urgent (“pressing, impelling”), from Latin urgēns, from urgēre (“to press”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵʰ- (“bind, squeeze”). Equivalent to urge + -ent. Related to German würgen (“to strangle”), Lithuanian ver̃žti (“to string, tighten, constrict”), Russian (poetic) отверза́ть (otverzátʹ, “to open”, literally “to untie”), Polish otwierać (“to open”)) and English worry, wring, wreak, wreck.
Used in a sentence
“An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.”
“The Egyptians were vrgent vpon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste.”
“My kind friends here are most affectionately urgent with me to prolong my stay […].”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Needing quick action”6 letters
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