Synonyms for should
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1. shouldverb

   Be obliged to; have an obligation to; ought to;

   Synonyms:
   ought

   Antonyms:
   shouldnt

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1. should

   One ought to do that which he is under moral obligation or in duty bound to do. Ought is the stronger word, holding most closely to the sense of moral obligation, or sometimes of imperative logical necessity; should may have the sense of moral obligation or may apply merely to propriety or expediency, as in the proverb, "The liar should have a good memory," i. e., he will need it. Ought is sometimes used of abstractions or inanimate things as indicating what the mind deems to be imperative or logically necessary in view of all the conditions; as, these goods ought to go into that space; these arguments ought to convince him; should in such connections would be correct, but less emphatic. Compare DUTY.

   Synonyms:
   ought

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1. List of paraphrases for "should":

   ought, expected, oughta, gotta, needs

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1. John Larsen:

   There's not going to be one big thing that Congress or EPA or states do that just solves it, there will be a few actions that are going to have outsized impact on their own like a congressional bill, but no one should look to congress and expect that's the lion's share of the contribution.

2. Shimon Peres:

   Why cross an ocean when you can cross a river Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here (On Middle East peace initiative)

3. Bernie Sanders:

   Joe is a friend of mine and he has different points of view on health care than I do, that's great. We'll debate those issues. But we should not have a distortion of what Medicare for All stands for.

4. Gabriel Obiang Lima:

   Under no circumstances are we going to be apologizing, anybody out of the continent saying we should not develop those fields, that is criminal. It is very unfair.

5. Seth Pollak:

   People will often ask me, 'What should teachers be doing?' Or, 'What should schools be doing? what this says to me is, what should we be doing about environments?