mandatory
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Among the author’s valuable if broad recommendations, he urges legislation that would establish mandatory follow-up care after the treatment of serious mental illness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Once the deal closes, PAG will launch a mandatory cash offer for the remaining shares of Evergrande Property Services.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
But this might be the year the Westside, South Bay and other coastal areas realize that A/C is now mandatory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
The so-called mandatory convertible preferred stock is expected to carry a dividend yield of 6% to 6.5%.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
Somewhere in between the teasing and the bickering, I’d come to think of him as more than a mandatory partner.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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By giving up the belts, he is stepping away from mandatories, the politics and the pressure to keep defending against whoever is next in line.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
There is also the issue of Usyk's mandatories, which could throw up one particularly eye-catching encounter.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2022
With the collapse of those mandatories today, those same defendants could easily see far different outcomes.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 10, 2016
Instead he has dealt with a string of decent but unspectacular mandatories in Hagler-esque fashion as they have shuffled tentatively into his range.
From The Guardian ● May 9, 2016
Germany was deprived of her possessions in Africa during the European War, and the Peace Conference of 1919 appointed Great Britain, France, and Belgium to act as mandatories of the League of Nations.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various
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