obligate
Example Sentences
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The risk: Intel builds upon its extraordinary gains and keeps rising, which would obligate investors to sell the stock, or to manage the short call to avoid assignment.
From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026
My sexuality doesn’t obligate me to embrace a particular ideology or to reject the moral inheritance of the society that made my life possible.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
Brennan & Rogers, a Maine-based law firm, says those laws obligate adult children to provide necessities such as food, clothing, housing and medical care for their parents who can’t afford to take care of themselves.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 4, 2026
But it does not obligate the IOC to make changes, cancel or assume liability.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2025
Other young people's classes are provided for those who do not thus obligate themselves but are willing attendants.
From Seven Graded Sunday Schools A Series of Practical Papers by Various
Vocabulary lists containing obligate
Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791)
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A Step from Heaven
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