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mandatory

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


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On Tuesday, he released the 18 recommendations made after a "rapid review" into the breaches including new safety and security standards for AI companies such as mandatory reporting of hacks.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

Artificial intelligence companies will have to abide by new "mandatory" safeguards when operating in Australia, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Tuesday.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026

The review also recommended "mandatory, time-bound AI safety reporting" of hacks.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

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

Although many women in Afghanistan traditionally chose to wear the burka, a head-to-toe covering—including his grandmother and his aunts—the Taliban now made it mandatory.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

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

Also, the federal decision recognized an exception for mandatories that involve a defendant’s criminal history.

From Washington Times ● May 30, 2015

For if they are mandatories, we cannot deny that they may kill with their own hands; and nevertheless, not to speak of the other decisions cited above, Clar.

From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous


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