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. Jennifer Moak:

   I know that they thought that it was safer for her to be off the ship, and it could have been, if the situation was dealt with in the right way, her safety is my number one priority, and they were saying her safety was their number one riority, so we should have all been on the same page.

2. Mark Strodtman:

   We should pass it as is now and go to the next step.

3. Stephanie Rawlings-Blake:

   The proposed settlement agreement ... should not be interpreted as a judgment on the guilt or innocence of the officers facing trial, this settlement is being proposed solely because it is in the best interest of the city, and avoids costly and protracted litigation that would only make it more difficult for our city to heal and potentially cost taxpayers many millions more in damages.

4. Liu Pengyu:

   The remarks of the relevant Liu Pengyu congressmen are full of Cold War zero-sum thinking and ideological prejudice, the cooperation between China and the US in economic, financial and other fields is open and aboveboard. The US should take off The US colored glasses and stop disrupting local and non-governmental exchanges between the two countries.

5. Panchatantra:

   A man should not keep company with one whose character, family, and abode are unknown.