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have to
Idioms and Phrases
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.Example Sentences
Lue had implored his group to get off to a better start, to not have to play catchup in this road game, to not get “bored with the process.”
China will have to tread carefully.
Ever since making that choice, he has adopted the mantra that says if you want to be different on the pitch, you have to be different off it.
That's exactly the moment when you have to work even harder, train more, sleep well, eat better, and above all keep dreaming.
"You don't have to be connected with everyone all the time," said his flatmate Hannah Steiner, 23.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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