obligation
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Fiduciary duty is the highest obligation the law imposes on asset managers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
He also thinks that Taylor Morrison didn’t run a sales process for the company—which would be unusual for a public company since boards normally feel an obligation to do so.
From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026
“Broadcast licensees have a unique obligation to operate in the public interest. The FCC will follow the facts and law wherever they may lead.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
Celtic had an obligation to buy him that summer, as if they would do anything else.
From BBC • May 23, 2026
He had a hard and lonely job—the hardest and loneliest in the world, it often seemed to me—but he knew that he had an obligation to stay open, to shut nothing out.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Vocabulary lists containing obligation
The Diary of Anne Frank
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