Obligated

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Obligated” is only a word if you have an aversion to verbs: It started out life as a verb, inevitably used in the passive (I am obliged), was brusquely nominalised into a noun (I am subject to an obligation) and then inexpertly retrofitted back to a verb again, still in the passive (I am obligated).

There's a better, active, English verb: “must” which, if you are to find favour with people like me, you shall be obligated to effect the deployment of.


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