Words similar to ought

Example sentences for: ought

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This is how class works in America: a shared imagery of taste and behavior; a stark inequality of material, educational, and social means in measuring up to the image of how you ought to be.
Others are just promising ideas that ought to be tried.
The speaker's words should never be changed; that is, arse ought not be substituted for ass or vice versa and, if an explanation of an unfamiliar word or phrase is required, it ought to be supplied, even if this must be relegated to a footnote.
Daily Express Read by the people who think the country ought to be run the way it used to be run.
It ought to require that the White House rotunda be the only place at which the DNC or the president may accept large contributions, and that the floors of the House and Senate chambers be the only places an individual or PAC may give a large contribution to a member of Congress.