The training is obligatory for all personnel.
This action movie includes the obligatory chase scenes.
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Here is what to know about Good Friday, and the obligatory fast for Catholics.—👁 Image Mariyam Muhammad, Cincinnati Enquirer, 1 Apr. 2026 The norms concerning meat abstinence apply to members of the Latin Catholic Church from age 14 onward, and the norms of fasting are obligatory for Catholic followers aged 18 through 59, according to the conference.—👁 Image Laura Daniella Sepulveda, AZCentral.com, 26 Mar. 2026 The movie does attempt to gesture at class and race as thematic underpinnings (the maids trapped in The Virgil are mostly non-white, while the villains are rich Caucasians), but like the story and action at large, these go pretty much nowhere, and feel like obligatory symbols.—👁 Image Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 18 Mar. 2026 Three decades later, Prince William and Kate Middleton returned to the same place to replicate the visit, making this red desert landscape a sort of obligatory stop in a country where the Windsors, despite protests, still reign.—👁 Image Diego Parrado, Vanity Fair, 14 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for obligatory
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Etymology
Middle English obligatorie, borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French obligatorie, obligatoire, borrowed from Latin obligātōrius, from obligāre "to tie up, restrain by tying, place under a legal or moral constraint" + -tōrius, deverbal adjective suffix, originally forming derivatives from agent nouns ending in -tōr-, -tor — more at oblige
