mandatory
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The decline has triggered cutbacks, mandatory and voluntary.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
The area from Van Buren Boulevard and Jurupa Road east to Stone Avenue toward Stone Elementary School and south to Paisano Way and Limonita Avenue is under mandatory evacuation orders.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
Instead, the WGA was able to expand access to AI information and require mandatory meetings if companies that develop artificial intelligence technology hope to license writers’ work to train generative AI systems.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
The mandatory minimum sentence is 10 years in prison.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
Attendance is mandatory unless you are on death's door.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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