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ARIRANG, named after a South Korean folk song, includes mostly English lyrics but explores themes including Korean identity after the band's hiatus for mandatory military service.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

The company pivoted from a three-days-per-week requirement to a roughly three-days-per-month expectation, with each team leader deciding when more attendance is mandatory depending on when people need to be in person with their team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

Carson, the defending City Section Open Division champion, will have five mandatory days of acclimation, then hold an intrasquad scrimmage on Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026

Another Labour MP, Alistair Strathern, has been calling for the government to make relationships and sex education mandatory for 16 to 18-year-olds.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

Principal McCoy had, and he’d told me so when he explained my mandatory community service to me and my mother.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

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

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