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The offer is voluntary, but Frasers noted that it held a significant number of options on Hugo Boss shares that would put its stake above 30 percent and oblige it to make a buyout offer.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

“Listing agents are also culprits in this pattern, as they want to work with the celebrity and oblige their unrealistic expectations,” he explains.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 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

Galleries are also closing and downsizing, and films that don’t oblige the content farm aren’t solicited as readily as influencer-helmed or easily digestible projects that can be played as background noise for scrolling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026

“Delighted to oblige you ladies,” said the bard.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

Several leaders brought up the bloc’s emissions-trading system in their remarks, which obliges companies to pay for their greenhouse-gas emissions in a bid to nudge them toward cleaner energy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

Mr. Youngkin’s comment about Mr. Vance more or less obliges him not to vituperate the vice president in the usual way of presidential primaries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

Known as the mandatory reimbursement requirement it obliges banks to refund most victims of push payment fraud - when victims are tricked and manipulated into transferring money to criminals themselves.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025

The potentially landmark decision was centred on European Union law which obliges companies to obtain users' consent to create lucrative personalised advertising from their data.

From Barron's ● Nov. 20, 2025

These scholars present science as being about rhetoric, persuasion and authority because the symmetry principle obliges them to assume that that is all it can be about.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Despite typos and a complete lack of please or thank you, Claude obliged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

MPs are obliged to declare any financial support they received up to a year before their election.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Even his arrival is an anomaly, given Ipswich were obliged to buy him following promotion despite an underwhelming loan spell.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

AFC members would not be obliged to vote against the proposals.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

“I am much obliged to your ladyship for your kind invitation,” replied Elizabeth, “but it is not in my power to accept it. I must be in town next Saturday.”

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

Latin America's biggest economy has in recent months sought to boost protections for children online, obliging platforms to link the accounts of users under age 16 to their parents' accounts and verify user age.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

“Promoters are keen to expand and capture new market share, often reflected in artist contracts obliging the latter to tour in certain geographies, Europe being one of them,” the Bernstein analysts said.

From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026

When Rana’s curiosity leads her far from home, she must call on her memory of her mother’s stories and, with the help of an obliging polar bear, find her own way back.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

In the match against an admittedly obliging Falkirk, Celtic scored four times in 90 minutes having scored only 12 in the 810 league minutes that went before.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2025

After the storm passed, they were sighted drifting mastless on the Bay and were towed home by an obliging neighbor.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson