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- phrase UK
ought not . - phrase US, Canada, dated, rare ought not.
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Examples
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An institution like this oughtn't to be run on politics.
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I'm dry behind the ears, an 'maybe I've learned a few things I oughtn't to before I knew you.
CHAPTER VII 2010
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The truth that sparked their being oughtn't be rendered meaningless so easily.
differentiation 2010
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That is, unless he's assuming that it's no benefit at all because taxpayers oughtn't to have the money -- in which case he's engaged in something very different from the exercise in uncontroversial positive economics that he wants us to believe he's engaged in.
Comment of the Week, 2003-04-30, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The truth that sparked their being oughtn't be rendered meaningless so easily.
Adaptation 2010
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The truth that sparked their being oughtn't be rendered meaningless so easily.
Education 2010
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The truth that sparked their being oughtn't be rendered meaningless so easily.
Integrity 2010
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They oughta hang like Chester Johnson, or else he oughtn't to hang.
CHAPTER XIV 2010
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The truth that sparked their being oughtn't be rendered meaningless so easily.
Pop Culture 2010
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His poor sister, shamed by her brother's drunkenness had moved far and away where she oughtn't to have news of Masdy's daily inebriated activities.
Masdy's Silver dj barber 2011
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