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To cobble together these numbers, state regulators look at projections of population growth to accommodate the need for future homes and then tack on adjustments to account for all the homes that weren’t built in prior periods, but perhaps ought to have been.

"Finally they have secured the admissions that they ought to have had," she said.

From BBC

"This wasn't a coincidence, this was triple sabotage at the UN. They ought to be ashamed of themselves."

From BBC

This seems like something that Congress, which overwhelmingly approved this legislation along bipartisan lines, ought to have taken legal action against.

From Slate

There is a common complaint that the party's ideas don't get the attention they ought to, particularly given that Reform UK have sucked up so much political oxygen in the last few months.

From BBC

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

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