imperative
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His proposed ballroom “represents another way this presidency has abandoned its imperative of projecting modesty, openness, and stability,” the architect and historian Neil Flanagan complained in the Atlantic this month.
From Slate • May 18, 2026
“The logic is that this is a winner-takes-all race,” Mehta said, “and that it’s imperative to accelerate AI progress to ensure that the United States wins that race.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
"The US has changed. That's their right and we are responding. That is our imperative," the prime minister said in Ottawa.
From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026
Jean-François Mercure, an academic at the U.K.’s University of Exeter who studies the spread of EVs, expects that their declining costs, plus American manufacturers’ imperative to compete globally, will eventually bring a tipping point.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
The thematic coherence in Mueller’s exposition is a happy consequence of his use of classic style, particularly the imperative to show rather than tell.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing imperative
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