obligingly

adverb

Definition of obliginglynext
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for obligingly
  1. voluntarily
  2. gladly
Adverb
  • While some states voluntarily handed over the information, the department sued 30 states and the District of Columbia to obtain it -- lawsuits that so far have been unsuccessful.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026
  • In the years since that 2014 study, consumer concerns led many companies to voluntarily remove parabens from their products.
    — Tracy Middleton, Allure, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of voluntarily
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  • The Chargers will gladly play a game where each team gets six possessions.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 10 Oct. 2026
  • 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
Definition of gladly

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“Obligingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/obligingly. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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