mandatory

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Moreno Valley residents south of John F. Kennedy Drive were also under mandatory evacuation orders.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

By then, World Athletics had tightened its rules after the 2016 Rio Olympics, when all three medallists in the women's 800 metre final were DSD athletes, introducing mandatory sex testing in 2025.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

ExpressVPN is based in the British Virgin Islands, a jurisdiction that does not have mandatory data retention laws and is well outside the Five/Nine/Fourteen Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026

And Sri Lanka's leading technology firm WSO2 made working from home mandatory for its 500 employees on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

Soma was yearning aloud for one more Big Thing as she approached mandatory retirement.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times