oblige
verb (used with object)
to require or constrain, as by law, command, conscience, or force of necessity.
are obliging
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present progressiveof oblige.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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"We’re told we need to wear masks again. So @thelizcarey and I are obliging," Porizkova cheekily captioned the pic referencing the new mask mandate in Los Angeles.
From Fox News ● Jul. 21, 2021
Revenue shortfalls in Angola and Nigeria are obliging the government to delay salaries to teachers and nurses and weigh cuts to widely popular fuel subsidies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2016
Many instructors are obliging with alerts in handouts and before presentations, even emailing notes of caution ahead of class.
From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2014
The findings are obliging epidemiologists, infectious-disease specialists and public-health experts to reassess the risks and benefits of the contraceptive, whose branded version, Depo-Provera, is made by Pfizer.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 8, 2011
And we are obliging them at the rate of two hundred a day.
From Barlasch of the Guard by Henry Seton Merriman
