mandatory
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On Monday, shortly after authorities began downgrading some mandatory evacuation orders to warnings around Somersett, Washoe County Sheriff Darin Balaam said people were already venturing too far into dangerous wildlands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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
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
"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
Our Victory Tour interview with Caesar Flickerman was mandatory viewing.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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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
They thus had a whole week in which to frame a mandate and select their mandatories.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
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