obligate
Example Sentences
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My sexuality doesn’t obligate me to embrace a particular ideology or to reject the moral inheritance of the society that made my life possible.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
Brennan & Rogers, a Maine-based law firm, says those laws obligate adult children to provide necessities such as food, clothing, housing and medical care for their parents who can’t afford to take care of themselves.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 4, 2026
However it added that "preserving the side does not obligate the government to preserve all the buildings and structures... in their current state," and authorities had yet to assess the buildings.
From Barron's • Nov. 3, 2025
“The need for food, bills and rent money obligate you to look for work,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2025
Moreover, the state government, as we have seen, could empower its own agents to borrow money for a purpose which it had authorized and obligate the city to pay it.
From The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy by Smith, J. Allen (James Allen)
Vocabulary lists containing obligate
Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791)
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