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ob·li·gat·ed

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. obligated(p)adjective

    caused by law or conscience to follow a certain course

    "felt obligated to repay the kindness"; "was obligated to pay off the student loan"

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  1. List of paraphrases for "obligated":

    obliged, compelled, forced, bound, required, held

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#485required
#1063held
#2573forced
#3403bound
#15303obliged
#17405compelled
#18664obligated

How to use obligated in a sentence?

  1. Andrew Young:

    He didn't make it to 40. He made it to 39, some of the rest of us who made it are obligated to keep on trying. There is no giving up, no giving in, no retirement because we've come too far from where we started from. And nobody told us that the way would be easy, but I don't believe he brought us this far to leave us...

  2. Ty Cobb:

    There is no doubt, however, that he was obligated to appoint a special counsel as to Biden.

  3. Dan Cooper:

    Before Roger Ailes, everyone in journalism was obligated to strive to be objective, now, bias is considered a positive. Roger Ailes demolished the objective standard in journalism.

  4. Carrie Horstman:

    Officers are legally obligated to take a person into custody if they have a warrant.

  5. Ye Htut:

    Despite requests for peaceful negotiations, student protesters tried to penetrate the police blockade and the police were legally obligated to disperse them.


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