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Example Sentences
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The commission wrote in its letter that it had "not identified any omissions of expenditure that ought to have been declared" in Farage's campaign to be elected in his Clacton constituency.
From BBC
But the idea that banks ought not to conduct commerce is at best only a partial explanation of crises gone by.
From Barron's
Sameer Samana from the Wells Fargo Investment Institute and Brett Donnelly from independent research house Spectra Markets both feel that further gains may be more difficult to come by and silver ought to take a breather after its record-setting rally.
From MarketWatch
The story of Rob Reiner, his wife, Michele, and their son Nick ought to make people think again about what nepo babies are, and aren’t.
But even while Charlie longs to recross the wine dark sea to America, he ought to take solace in Homer’s words: “No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
