mustn't
AmericanUsage
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Example Sentences
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“Anticorruption efforts mustn’t be exploited, and the chaotic practice of ‘hyping up corruption’ must be curbed,” the official party newspaper of Sichuan province said in a commentary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
But "we mustn't give in to this siren song," warned Bernard Jullien, an automotive industry specialist at the University of Bordeaux.
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
"We mustn't end up like Iraq or Syria, honestly, we don't deserve that," a young man in Tehran said, referring to the civil wars which scarred those two countries this century.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026
One is: We mustn’t ever get into a world where it’s got to be a genocide before we care about it.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2025
This outside world is full of people I mustn't trust.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
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