Obligated

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“Obligated” is only a word if you have some kind of aversion to verbs: It is a verb, inevitably used in the passive (I am obliged) that was then nominalised into a noun (I am subject to an obligation) and then inexpertly converted back to a verb again (I am obligated). There's a better, active, English verb: “must”.
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