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Republicans were also able to sow division among Democrats, who ought to be celebrating sweeping recent state elections but are instead at each other's throats -- with the furious progressive base berating the leadership for folding.

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“You ought to get the war ended, the war that should have taken one week is now in…its fourth year, that’s what you ought to do instead of testing missiles.”

Our priority ought to be solving shutdown-related pay issues.

In a post on social media on Tuesday, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said that while the BBC as an institution "ought to be treasured", it has "continually let down licence fee payers".

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Instead of blaming their woes on capitalism or Israel, they ought to be protesting big government and greedy colleges.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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