oblige
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Whether you need a meal or a mechanic, balloons or even a barber, Hanoi's busy pavements could always oblige.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
"Content farms and internet trolls are happy to oblige them."
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
Members of the general public ask for them, including for their children, and doctors happily oblige, says Mir.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
Mr. Broderick, himself a sometime movie star, brings a slyly funny air of noblesse oblige that dovetails amusingly with Jay’s pompous, blinkered dimness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
Well, Mrs. Weston, you have prevailed, I hope, and these ladies will oblige us.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
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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