mandatory
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Is it time to talk about mandatory retirement ages?
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
Last year, the CDC stopped mandatory monitoring for six different foodborne illnesses, including cyclospora.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026
It will then file a mandatory tender offer for 100% of Exail’s shares and bonds, with the closing of the deal expected at the beginning of 2028 at the latest, Thales said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
The appeals come with Netflix recently having announced it wants to work toward capping mandatory investments, currently set at 20 percent of revenue.
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
And in the late nineteenth century the Congress made its reading a mandatory ritual on Washington’s birthday.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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By giving up the belts, he is stepping away from mandatories, the politics and the pressure to keep defending against whoever is next in line.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
There is also the issue of Usyk's mandatories, which could throw up one particularly eye-catching encounter.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2022
Instead he has dealt with a string of decent but unspectacular mandatories in Hagler-esque fashion as they have shuffled tentatively into his range.
From The Guardian ● May 9, 2016
But under a series of appellate court rulings, those mandatories and many like them have been thrown out as unconstitutional by the state Superior Court.
From Washington Times ● May 30, 2015
For if they are mandatories, we cannot deny that they may kill with their own hands; and nevertheless, not to speak of the other decisions cited above, Clar.
From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous
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