imperatives
- plural of imperative.
Example Sentences
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They’re losing out on great candidates, visionary leaders and businesses, to say nothing of the moral imperatives of equal access and opportunity.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026
Tehran’s twin imperatives appear to be keeping it at the negotiating table despite skirmishes in the Strait of Hormuz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
Lens added that their domestic league risks being "gradually relegated to the status of an adjustment variable at the whim of the European imperatives of some".
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
The imperatives of SEO are what helped popularize a slick and impersonal style in the first place, Smith points out.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2025
Any image is a separate and self-contained reality which has its own ends and responds to its own imperatives, for artists are bound only to their creativity.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
