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USC, for example, remains test optional, meaning students can choose to have their scores considered in the admission process, but doing so is not mandatory.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

South Korea requires able-bodied men to complete mandatory military service, and Big Bang's members served at different points during the group's hiatus.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

"There are mandatory vitamins and minerals which manufacturers in the UK are required to add to white wheat flour such as calcium carbonate, niacin and thiamin," she says.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

As part of a “dairy sustainability initiative,” the mandatory payments were funding efforts to “regenerate the environment,” reduce greenhouse gases and environmental impact, and support “energy audits.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

One year after he joined, Karl began to skip the mandatory meetings, a decision that angered his unit leader.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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

But under a series of appellate court rulings, those mandatories and many like them have been thrown out as unconstitutional by the state Superior Court.

From Washington Times ● May 30, 2015

If further support is given to these faithless mandatories, it is because they are soon to be put out.

From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by John Durand