oblige

They seemed happy to oblige, apparently assured that they’d be cut in on whatever deal the U.S. had in mind.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026

Speaking to reporters on Air Force One, Trump said Japan had asked for help and the U.S. was happy to oblige.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

It was something of an obsession, a harmless one, and we were happy to oblige.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

The offer is voluntary, but Frasers noted that it held a significant number of options on Hugo Boss shares that would put its stake above 30 percent and oblige it to make a buyout offer.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

In history class, when young Elena had learned the term noblesse oblige, she’d understood it at once.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

That law obliges companies classed as EU gatekeepers—like Google—to make it easier for rivals to compete with their widely popular services from search engines to app stores.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Content creators are "contractually bound" to brands, which obliges them to keep posting no matter what, according to the journalist.

From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026

That’s the plank that says an attack on one is an attack on all and obliges a united response.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

Known as the mandatory reimbursement requirement it obliges banks to refund most victims of push payment fraud - when victims are tricked and manipulated into transferring money to criminals themselves.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025

Nikhil obliges, fully asleep, sits upright, then closes his eyes again.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Sullivan obliged, allowing Reddington one hour to file his appeal, but it ultimately failed with the state supreme court quickly holding a hearing and denying the application for an emergency stay.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

Those without special labour-management agreements in the first place will remain legally obliged to keep monthly overtime to 45 hours or less.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

In defense of Liu, OpenAI said Apple staff reached out to him after he left, asking for help to locate files they still needed and that he obliged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

In short, there was no market dysfunction that Bessent was obliged to address, just the market pricing Treasury yields at roughly the same rate the U.S. economy grows.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

“Oh, yes! It was very sweet, and I’m much obliged to whoever translated it for me.”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Latin America's biggest economy has in recent months sought to boost protections for children online, obliging platforms to link the accounts of users under age 16 to their parents' accounts and verify user age.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

“Promoters are keen to expand and capture new market share, often reflected in artist contracts obliging the latter to tour in certain geographies, Europe being one of them,” the Bernstein analysts said.

From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026

When Rana’s curiosity leads her far from home, she must call on her memory of her mother’s stories and, with the help of an obliging polar bear, find her own way back.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

It turns out clafoutis is a natural shape-shifter — easy to make, nearly impossible to ruin and endlessly obliging.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2025

“You were obliging the W. C. T. U. then, I reckon.”

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner