obligate

Just because someone contacted me didn’t obligate me to reply instantly.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026

"Bifidobacterium is an obligate anaerobe, so it doesn't grow in the presence of oxygen," Mimee said.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

Having power of attorney for her does not obligate you to act as executor.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

“If additional funds are made available to State, we will work to obligate them consistent with legal requirements and Administration priorities.”

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026

He will not again obligate himself as a messenger boy.

From Hunters Out of Space by Joseph Everidge Kelleam

The “covered call” strategy lowers the stock purchase price by the received call premium and obligates investors to sell stock higher.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

The pledge obligates actors, directors and producers not to screen films, appear in or work with what it considers complicit institutions, including festivals, cinemas, broadcasters and production companies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025

These courts stuck with the rulebook, which obligates them to follow precedent until it’s formally overturned.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2025

And while she said her oath ethically obligates her to defend these children, she doesn’t know how the office will survive in its current form if payments don’t come in.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2025

Is not the principle on which the whole of morals rests, the principle which obligates man to good and lays the foundation of virtue, of the same nature?

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

"Players are not only expected to be visible, but are obligated to be visible because of the low income to subsidise the lack of solid income they receive."

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Ireland’s national broadcaster, RTÉ, is contractually obligated to broadcast the games but will do so in bare-bones fashion, with no commentary, punditry or advertising.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

The senator also said more of Bombardier’s planes should be built in the U.S., and he said the company is obligated to grow its footprint in Kansas.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

The U.S. president’s naming authority extends only to federal maps and agencies; other nations — and private map providers — are not obligated to adopt the change.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

If it gets too late, I feel obligated to drop them off on my way home.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

"Gomez purported ‌to ⁠sign a contract obligating her to perform and then ignored it," the lawsuit claims.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

A “phase one” trade deal signed in early 2020 addressed neither of those points, instead obligating China to buy more soybeans from American farmers—something Beijing largely failed to fulfill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

If you recall the myth, you may be able to guess that he’s another loved one Dream condemns to suffering, obligating the supreme being to apologize yet again.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2025

“Accordingly, the Department will not be issuing Grant Award Notifications obligating funds for these programs on July 1 prior to completing that review.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2025

We do not know Him as Father, until we possess the obligating sense of our kinship with all mankind, and say, "Our Father."

From Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking by Henry Sloane Coffin