obligation
Example Sentences
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“It’s melancholy. It comes from a place of obligation, like being pushed into a corner.”
From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026
Medical societies have an obligation to follow the science.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
Public agencies in California are required to conduct community outreach, and most take that obligation seriously.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026
They represent the United States, and their obligation, by statute, by tradition, and by the ethical rules that govern every attorney who stands in a federal courtroom, is to seek justice.
From Slate • Apr. 28, 2026
Yet no matter how bloody the war might prove to be, he felt the obligation to join the fight "to stand by the country and sustain its authority."
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
Vocabulary lists containing obligation
The Diary of Anne Frank
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The Things They Carried
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Freak the Mighty
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