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were must
noun
Something that is mandatory or required.
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The appetite to restore the economic models to what they were must drive you crazy?
"Their opinion, formed on the frontline as it were, must carry a great deal of weight.
"I'm actually happy to know he wasn't on the pile," he said, adding that those who were must be in even graver shape.
Hamid, characteristically droll, drew up a list of 10 commandments of which the first three were: "Must have mangoes"; "Must have maids who serve mangoes"; "Maids must have affairs with man servants who should occasionally steal mangoes".
What particularly impressed her, she said, was the way Mr. Herzog evoked a feeling similar to the one she imagines "the painters themselves, and their audience, whoever they were," must have felt viewing the paintings by flickering torchlight, which gives the animals portrayed the appearance of both depth and movement.
Paul McCartney has an entry for saying that he proposed to his second wife because of a message from an owl, which is chickenfeed by the superstitious standards of show-business.The temptation to make someone sound madder than they were must have been hard to resist.
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Diggins's high school games were must-see events in South Bend.
They were must-have victories, Coach Mike Jarvis said, if the Red Storm is to make the N.C.A.A. tournament.
The Philadelphia Eagles game and the Green Bay games were must-win games and we didn't close it out".
A few iconic works were must-haves, including Andy Warhol's silk-screen soup cans (1965) and Jeff Koons's stainless-steel "Rabbit" (1986).
Mr. McKellen, Mr. Stewart and Ms. Mirren were must-see names of the London classical repertory long before they entered more crowd-pleasing chapters in their careers.
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