Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Contraction of must not.
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- phrase
must not ; used to indicate that something isforbidden or, in atag question , that something is not necessary.
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Examples
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But the authorities mustn't let the local currency get too strong because "we must keep the price of our goods and services competitive."
Lee Kuan Yew: US Policies Bad For Dollar; Singapore Seeks Balance On Stronger Local Dollar Patrick Barta 2011
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But the authorities mustn't let the local currency get too strong because "we must keep the price of our goods and services competitive."
Lee Warns of Further Inflation for U.S. Patrick Barta 2011
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We mustn't confuse art's proclivity for sexual scandal its function as pornography, which was common, with a willingness to disrupt the male homosocial gender codes, which was exceedingly rare.
G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide G. Roger Denson 2011
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Unlike Ms. Jacoby, with her penchant for doctor-assisted suicide, Cicero thought with Pythagoras that we mustn't "desert life's sentry-post till God, our commander, has given word."
Nobody Gets Out of Here Alive Joseph Epstein 2011
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Still, we mustn't build a moat -- the hardest part is joining together without snubbing those who aren't gathered.
Adam Valen Levinson: Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah: A Christmas Story Adam Valen Levinson 2011
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We mustn't confuse art's proclivity for sexual scandal its function as pornography, which was common, with a willingness to disrupt the male homosocial gender codes, which was exceedingly rare.
G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide G. Roger Denson 2011
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One really mustn't choose to evaluate changes in a balance sheet by looking at only one side of it.
Social Security Reform, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Furthermore the rhetoric of todays programmers sounds similar to protectionist and ludites of the past, thier arguements must carry the same wieght, mustn't they?
Outsourcing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Just because the wartime generation has largely gone, we mustn't lose our comic nerve.
We've always found Hitler hilarious – the alternative is much more odious | David Mitchell 2011
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Still, we mustn't build a moat -- the hardest part is joining together without snubbing those who aren't gathered.
Adam Valen Levinson: Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah: A Christmas Story Adam Valen Levinson 2011
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