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  • There was the obligatory march around the grounds.  (source)
  • I heard the officer, his voice tired and uninterested, asking his obligatory questions.  (source)
  • It's a change, because it was never obligatory before.  (source)
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  • It was Saturday, and all the Elite had been excused from our obligatory day of sitting in the Women's Room.  (source)
    obligatory = required
  • There's our obligatory portrait of the Elector hanging on the wall, surrounded by a handful of our own photos, as if he were a member of our family.  (source)
  • For the most part she'd held up well-far better than I-and over the first two weeks she'd trooped along without complaint as we hit the obligatory tourist stops.  (source)
  • Still, all over Europe now schools are obligatory.  (source)
  • But he looked back at her, blinked in obligatory boredom, and squeezed easily between the bars.†  (source)
  • But mostly it's the obligatory applause from an audience waiting to be impressed.†  (source)
  • Not much would be said, apart from the obligatory "Sleep well, darling?" and "Mmm — you?"†  (source)
  • I made the obligatory joke: "Don't grab my boob."†  (source)
  • First there were the obligatory celebrations.†  (source)
  • At night we made love—it seemed almost obligatory at the moment, as if we should take full advantage of our freedom.†  (source)
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