imperative
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Finding new markets has become more imperative as competition intensifies for Chinese beauty labels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
He thinks the first imperative is that tribal voices be heard, in no small part because they “had their relationship with wildlife taken from them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
“It’s imperative that the community has a voice in such significant changes.”
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
"It's imperative they win every game in the lead up to it this year."
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Writers acquire the hedge habit to conform to the bureaucratic imperative that’s abbreviated as CYA, which I’ll spell out as Cover Your Anatomy.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
They’re losing out on great candidates, visionary leaders and businesses, to say nothing of the moral imperatives of equal access and opportunity.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026
Margulies explains how, when we allow obscure legal language to overshadow moral imperatives, we can end up in very dark places.
From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2026
Meta Platforms for years veered between competitive imperatives like copying TikTok with a product called Reels to expensive long-term projects like starting a virtual-reality world dubbed the metaverse, which it is now scaling back.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
But this all means that the defence and security imperatives faced by the US and Europe are diverging.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2025
Though the brief exchange over the Mecklenburg Declaration touched on these significant differences of opinion, the diplomatic imperatives of the dialogue ruled out full disclosure.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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