have to

1. Also, have got to. Be obliged to, must. For example, We have to go now, or He has got to finish the paper today. The use of have as an auxiliary verb to indicate obligation goes back to the 16th century; the variant using got dates from the mid-1800s.

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“Many retail investors were sitting on tech stocks, crypto and leverage at the same time. Now tech stocks are falling and the leverage works against you, so people have to seek crypto to cover the margin calls.”

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“And so it just seems every price of anything is rising these days, and they’re now directly in competition with each other. We can’t keep them all, so we have to make hard cuts.”

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In other words, all of the plan’s ambiguities, loose ends, and remaining disputes have to be settled—and then troop withdrawals have to be completed, not merely started—before a ceasefire takes hold.

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"I want to say clearly today, that no victim should ever feel that they have to put themselves in a hierarchy or feel any shame," he told the Commons.

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Adding that "now is the time" to update the law, she said: "the Lords have to respect that, and we have to respect democracy".

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