oblige
Example Sentences
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"Content farms and internet trolls are happy to oblige them."
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
"It was not an alliance that was designed for one of the allies to go on a war of choice and then oblige everybody else to follow," he said.
From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026
Many assume accommodation will be available if they want it, and many therapists oblige.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
The platform urged the Australian authorities to oblige app stores to check users' ages as an "additional safeguard" for the world-first crackdown.
From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026
I didn’t oblige, taking my cue from the Object not to be too friendly.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Vocabulary lists containing oblige
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Essential English Vocabulary, List 1
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Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I A Woman?" (1863)
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