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mandatory

[man-duh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] / ˈmæn dəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i /


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That’s three to four years of coursework and clinical practice, followed by a mandatory one-year full-time internship.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 2026

For now, mandatory evacuation orders and warnings remain in effect for both fires.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2026

Approval of new single-stock leveraged products has been put on hold, and a mandatory cash deposit required to trade them was tripled to roughly $21,000.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

There is no mandatory regulation of letting and managing agents in England.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

It’s the strangest thing, to spend all this time in school—forced through all these mandatory lessons—despite the fact that most of these subjects lead nowhere.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

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

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

Bergstrom, of the sentencing commission, said the court rulings could be a chance to improve those mandatories that appear to remain popular - ones directed against violent crime - while scrutinizing those that don’t.

From Washington Times May 30, 2015

Faced by this ominous situation, the "mandatories" took military counter-measures.

From The New World of Islam by Lothrop Stoddard




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