How to pronounce obligate
Listen to obligate in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
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“obligate” in real sentences
62 clips in the index · 26 American · 10 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Humans are the only obligate processivores.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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Rickettsiae are vector-transmitted, obligate intracellular gram-negative bacteria.
CDC · hear it here
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But the Pentagon can only obligate the money that it has.
PBS NewsHour · hear it here
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We obligate them to go to school or access education and things.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of obligate. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.