Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an obligatory manner; by obligation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an obligatory manner; by reason of obligation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
obligatory manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a manner that cannot be evaded
- adverb in an obligatory manner
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Examples
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I find this a nice counter-example to any claim that English suffixation is obligatorily logical.
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Woods, when asked about his "realistic expectation" for the week, obligatorily said he's here to win.
At PGA, It's How You Finish John Paul Newport 2011
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I find this a nice counter-example to any claim that English suffixation is obligatorily logical.
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We can conclude, then, that numeral expressions of the form more than n NP or between n and m NP trigger denotations that are obligatorily maximalized, but this is not the case for simple numerals of the form n NP.
Situations in Natural Language Semantics Kratzer, Angelika 2009
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English plainly doesn't have postpositions in the strict sense, i.e. an item which governs a noun phrase and obligatorily occurs after the noun phrase.
On postpositions DC 2009
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How is it that I know without even discussing it, that on the war between China and Viet Nam that took place, one or the other is obligatorily all right and the other all wrong?
Norman Mailer: Letters to Jack Abbott Mailer, Norman 2009
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And introduces a brand new segment of the show with the obligatorily muscular sounding name:
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English plainly doesn't have postpositions in the strict sense, i.e. an item which governs a noun phrase and obligatorily occurs after the noun phrase.
Archive 2009-04-01 DC 2009
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And I DO have to watch the game tomorrow (Go, Colts, she said, obligatorily.) 4: 39 PM
Pimento cheese, comfort served | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007
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She then obligatorily tossed Dick Cheney a prop for his work with muscling Congress.
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