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"text": "As this trial has now been postponed multiple times, there will be an adjournment to April 24, peremptory on the parties.",
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"(of a date or deadline) Absolutely requiring compliance or attendance; brooking no further delay; to proceed whether a party attends or not; final."
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"ref": "2003, Andrew Marr, The Guardian, 6 Jan 03",
"text": "He marched under a placard reading \"End Bossiness Now\" but decided it was a little too peremptory, not quite British, so changed the slogan on subsequent badges, to \"End Bossiness Soon.\"",
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"sense": "positive in opinion or judgment; decided, dogmatic",
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"word": "pertinent"
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"ref": "1891, Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism",
"text": "Upon the other hand, there are a great many people who, having no private property of their own, and being always on the brink of sheer starvation, are compelled to do the work of beasts of burden, to do work that is quite uncongenial to them, and to which they are forced by the peremptory, unreasonable, degrading Tyranny of want.",
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"ref": "1999 January 2, Anthony Howard, The Guardian, section 99",
"text": "Though today (surveying that yellowing document) I shudder at the peremptory tone of the instructions I gave, Alastair - in that same volume in which I get chastised for my coverage of the Macmillan rally - was generous enough to remark that my memorandum became 'an office classic'.",
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"sense": "imperious, dictatorial",
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