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The candidate said it is imperative that we take action to address climate change.imperative = essential and urgent
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The requests that grew more and more imperative.imperative = urgent
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In order to succeed in this competitive job market, it is imperative that you continue to learn and develop new skills throughout your career.imperative = essential
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It's becoming imperative that we get that national deficit under control.imperative = essential and urgent
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I was under way, propelled by an imperative that was beyond my ability to control or comprehend. (source)imperative = something demanding attention
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Life had altered in the wildest possible way, but it was imperative that they act as if nothing at all had happened. (source)imperative = essential
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"Imbuing violence with holy meaning," wrote the historian Iris Chang, "the Japanese imperial army made violence a cultural imperative every bit as powerful as that which propelled Europeans during the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition." (source)imperative = something that is essential
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What pressures will come to bear on American English to accommodate technology and the business imperatives behind it?† (source)
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He could feel the skillful hand of fate motivating him imperatively. (source)imperatively = in a demanding way
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But whatever blemishes others might discern in William, to his friend's mind he was faultless; for Marner had one of those impressible self-doubting natures which, at an inexperienced age, admire imperativeness and lean on contradiction.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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It's imperative you're discreet. (source)imperative = essential
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I wondered; but said nothing—Sebastian's life was governed by a code of such imperatives.† (source)
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Before I could reply that he was my neighbor dinner was announced; wedging his tense arm imperatively under mine, Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square. (source)imperatively = in a manner that required attention
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She felt to the full all the imperativeness of the motives which urged Will's conduct.† (source)
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But bringing order of the confusion in the castle was more imperative. (source)imperative = urgent
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Elwood and his fine moral imperatives and his very fine ideas about the capacity of human beings to improve.† (source)
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