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Discover LudwigThe phrase "almost imperative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a statement or command that has a strong suggestion or urgency but is not a direct command.
Example: "The instructions were almost imperative, urging us to complete the task by the end of the day."
Alternatives: "strongly suggested" or "nearly mandatory".
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The Internet has made things like this almost imperative".
You need fat: pork shoulder is almost imperative for the correct balance of lean and fat.
In the industrial world the need to guarantee a product out of the infant mortality zone has become almost imperative.
Which is what makes a birdie at the 523-yard No. 6 is almost imperative, though hardly automatic.
And with the cinched waist being the silhouette of the season, surrendering to it is almost imperative.
"It's almost imperative that you have some type of boot camp offering," Mr. Justice said, "for pure and simple bottom-line dollars".
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Democracy has become an almost religious imperative.
"I look at this as almost an imperative.
That's why I look at this as almost an imperative.
"To some degree, our emphasis on going in is not only an incentive but almost an imperative for him to do something," Mr. Sick said.
An additional irony is that what D.F.W. and Garner, a professor of law at Southern Methodist University whose day job is to teach good writing to lawyers, sit down to talk about is the centrality, the permanence, the almost moral imperative to write well.
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