OBLIGINGLY Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

obligingly

adverb

Definition of obligingly

as in voluntarily

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Recent Examples of obligingly With about 500 feet of line out, my fish has obligingly decided to sulk. — Ralph Tuttle, Outdoor Life, 25 June 2026 Give it a wiggle and the rhinestones obligingly flip right-side up, ready to be picked up. — Angela Haupt, Time, 19 May 2026 Claude, a large language model (LLM) developed by the company Anthropic, obligingly laid out possible interpretations. — Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 15 May 2026

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Kwon said the South Korean military removed a North Korean minefield around the blast site on Monday and will remove other North Korean minefields placed south of the border unless North Korea voluntarily eliminates them.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026
Coxon voluntarily testified, and was joined by former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, who testified under subpoena that the companies may not know when their safety work has failed.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of voluntarily

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Instead, North Korea has cultivated relations closer to home, especially with Russia, which has gladly accepted thousands of North Korean soldiers for the front lines of its war in Ukraine.

— Max Saltman, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026
Roberts would gladly write Tucker’s name into the lineup deep into October.

— Katie Woo, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026

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