mandatory
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Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark later told the BBC that a "kill switch" controlled by a third party may need to be mandatory for the industry.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
That also happens to be the Federal Aviation Administration’s mandatory retirement age for pilots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
He also was compensated for a mandatory "waiting period" following his departure from government.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
When the state’s three-strikes law still imposed mandatory life sentences on anyone with two or more prior convictions for violent felonies, California needed places like Susanville to put its skyrocketing prison population.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Somewhere in between the teasing and the bickering, I’d come to think of him as more than a mandatory partner.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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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
In the Senate, the chairman of the powerful Judiciary Committee is Sen. Stewart Greenleaf, R-Montgomery, a former prosecutor who helped write many of the state’s drug mandatories in the 1990s.
From Washington Times ● May 30, 2015
The way in which the mandatories and the mandated conceive that time will influence deeply their relations.
From Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann
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