incumbent on
Example Sentences
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“It is incumbent on Congress to understand why such a failure occurred.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
“It’s incumbent on every single one of us to put our best foot forward,” he said.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 20, 2025
As the governing party at the time, he added, it was "incumbent on us" to show the party could deliver its policy programme.
From BBC • Oct. 5, 2025
Bill Carrick, a consultant for Harman’s 1998 campaign, agreed it’s incumbent on a rich candidate to “have something substantive to say and be able to articulate why you’re going to make people’s lives better.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2025
He would have felt it incumbent on him to supply his granddaughter with clothes if she were indecently clad or if she were ragged or cold, but not to marry in.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
