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	“[[Obligated]]” is only a word if you have ~~some kind of~~ aversion to verbs: It started out life as a {{tag\|verb}}, inevitably used in the {{tag\|passive}} (I am ''[[obliged]]''), was brusquely [[nominalisation\|nominalised]] into a {{tag\|noun}} (I am subject to an ''obligation'') and then inexpertly retrofitted {{isdaprov\|back}} to a {{tag\|verb}} again, still in the passive (I am ''[[obligated]]'').		“[[Obligated]]” is only a word if you have an aversion to verbs: It started out life as a {{tag\|verb}}, inevitably used in the {{tag\|passive}} (I am ''[[obliged]]''), was brusquely [[nominalisation\|nominalised]] into a {{tag\|noun}} (I am subject to an ''obligation'') and then inexpertly retrofitted {{isdaprov\|back}} to a {{tag\|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 [[Amwell J\|me]], you shall be obligated to [[effect]] the deployment [[of]].		There's a better, active, English verb: “[[must]]” which, if you are to find favour with people like [[Amwell J\|me]], you shall be obligated to [[effect]] the deployment [[of]].