as in to compel
to cause (a person) to give in to pressure
the problem is of your own making, so don't think that you can obligate me to help
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Recent Examples of obligate
To be fair, Belichick is not obligated to share that information, especially considering that it can be used against him later on.
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Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
Hartig has argued she was not obligated to turn the report over, and is fighting the other claims against her, too.
—Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Employees also felt obligated to conform to a certain idea of femininity.
—Thessaly La Force, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
Winnebago County is obligated to operate the former UW-Oshkosh Fox Cities campus for the benefit of the public for the next two years.
—Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
Hartig has argued she was not obligated to turn the report over, and is fighting the other claims against her, too.
—Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Employees also felt obligated to conform to a certain idea of femininity.
—Thessaly La Force, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
Winnebago County is obligated to operate the former UW-Oshkosh Fox Cities campus for the benefit of the public for the next two years.
—Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for obligate
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Yet these productions are increasingly designed around an ethos of visual-over-depth that compels us to immediately document and post each scene.—
David Hochman,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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One way lawsuits can generate this pressure is through the discovery process, which compels companies to turn over internal documents, and could shed insight into what executives knew about safety risks or marketing harms.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
14 Sep. 2025
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Investigators allege that Hernandez coerced at least five minors into participating in the production of child pornography on at least seven occasions, consistent with the seven charges.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
10 Sep. 2025
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Never use someone’s dream to coerce them into a relationship.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
10 Sep. 2025
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The Kuomintang, or KMT, also known as the Nationalist Party of China, is the party formerly led by Chiang Kai-shek that ruled the entirety of the Republic of China before Mao Zedong’s communist military forced it to flee to Taiwan.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
16 Sep. 2025
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The show also featured a number of first-time nominees and first-time winners like Tramell Tillman, Jeff Hiller, Hannah Einbinder, and Owen Cooper, all of whom were been forced to amend their moment in the spotlight to adhere to the joke.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
15 Sep. 2025
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The pilot obliges — and then the co-pilot flips off the autopilot function.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
10 Sep. 2025
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That means the sheriff and chief probation officer are not obliged to implement its recommendations.—
Jeff McDonald,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Obligate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obligate. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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