imperative
Example Sentences
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The U.S. once recognized a Cold War imperative to make sure no outside power threatened the Persian Gulf.
Even the author most associated with the imperative of a dedicated writing space turns out to have made drastic modifications in real life.
For litigators, it has created a new imperative: ferreting out citations that have been fabricated by AI bots in their own court filings — and their adversaries’.
From Los Angeles Times
“So it is imperative for the sector to post upwards earnings revisions for the recent outperformance to continue.”
From Barron's
Even before the first bombs fell on Iran, after all, the U.S. was shortchanging all those imperatives.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
