imperative
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She says it is imperative to provide dedicated waiting rooms for cancer patients.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
There’s another way to look at this — through geography and — perhaps — a hidden strategic imperative for the U.S.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026
The U.S. once recognized a Cold War imperative to make sure no outside power threatened the Persian Gulf.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026
For litigators, it has created a new imperative: ferreting out citations that have been fabricated by AI bots in their own court filings — and their adversaries’.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
Then, without warning, the third sentence shifts to the imperative mood and we are supposed to have the reader, not the nouns, forming plurals in a certain way.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing imperative
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