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Nondefense discretionary spending, defense spending, plus Medicaid, CHIP, healthcare subsidies and other mandatory programs are already projected to shrink in relation to the economy.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

It called for bar codes and other mandatory design features on ballot envelopes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

The two countries were also engaged in a mandatory review of an existing North American free trade agreement, known as USMCA, with Mexico.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

"If it were up to me, there would be mandatory military service," said a mayor in Honduras who banned the battles.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

It’s a new school set up to create the leaders of tomorrow; corporate internships are mandatory; the higher-ups of Merrill Lynch come and speak to classes and distribute travel mugs and stuff.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini

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

Ferreted out by his mandatories, threatened with arrest by the Council, this Greek chose the lesser danger, and re-entered the Hôtel-de-Ville in mincing attitude.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary