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obligation
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  • Obligation is more than a claim imposed on us; it is a personal sense of indebtedness.  (source)
  • Paid his obligations, didn't he?  (source)
    obligations = bills (that he had a duty to pay)
  • Don't forget your obligations.  (source)
    obligations = duties
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  • If you really owe your dress-maker, I will settle with her--beyond that I recognize no obligation to assume your debts.  (source)
    obligation = duty
  • He gave notes, took up ruinous obligations, dealt with usurers and all the race of lenders.  (source)
    obligations = duties
  • There was an itch to leave then, but also a peculiar obligation to stay.†  (source)
  • It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led west.†  (source)
  • I am not sure I can live this life of obligation any longer.†  (source)
  • Both parties have hereby fulfilled their obligations to each other in perpetuity" I'm just rattling off lawyer words.†  (source)
  • But Mom had refused to have children unless Dad agreed to raise them as Catholics and to attend church himself on holy days of obligation.†  (source)
  • Instead, crises or other circumstances presented me with adult-sized responsibilities and obligations that I had to meet one way or another.†  (source)
  • That's our obligation, Henry.†  (source)
  • I am simply requiring you to fulfill your contractual obligations.†  (source)
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