required reading
noun
formal
: reading that must be done
The newspaper is required reading in my politics course.
Examples of required reading in a Sentence
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Evening Chats In Beijing For anyone who thinks China's path to economic modernization is likely to be smooth, this important volume should be required reading.
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Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2024
Fauci also wrote the book on human anatomy that is required reading for medical students.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 11 June 2024
The author… Evening Chats In Beijing For anyone who thinks China's path to economic modernization is likely to be smooth, this important volume should be required reading.
—Donald S. Zagoria, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
Those comics and the rest of the books might not be required reading, but the details still matter, after all.
—Jack Francis, Vulture, 5 June 2024
This approach was memorialized in a 2018 article in The New Yorker that is required reading for anyone interested in the story of Reddit’s revival.
—Kevin Roose, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
Maus, a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel series by Art Spiegelman, which uses visuals of Jewish people as mice and Nazis as cats to recount his family's experience during the Holocaust, is often required reading in high school classrooms.
—Tyler Gildin, Parents, 17 Feb. 2024
The book is often required reading for children in Poland.
—Karen Idelson, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024
Of all the things said over the past few days, and even months, about McAfee, Rodgers and the bedlam Rodgers has created, what Hill says about it all is so dead on it should be required reading for every executive inside the network.
—Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2024
Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2024
Fauci also wrote the book on human anatomy that is required reading for medical students.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 11 June 2024
The author… Evening Chats In Beijing For anyone who thinks China's path to economic modernization is likely to be smooth, this important volume should be required reading.
—Donald S. Zagoria, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
Those comics and the rest of the books might not be required reading, but the details still matter, after all.
—Jack Francis, Vulture, 5 June 2024
This approach was memorialized in a 2018 article in The New Yorker that is required reading for anyone interested in the story of Reddit’s revival.
—Kevin Roose, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
Maus, a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel series by Art Spiegelman, which uses visuals of Jewish people as mice and Nazis as cats to recount his family's experience during the Holocaust, is often required reading in high school classrooms.
—Tyler Gildin, Parents, 17 Feb. 2024
The book is often required reading for children in Poland.
—Karen Idelson, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024
Of all the things said over the past few days, and even months, about McAfee, Rodgers and the bedlam Rodgers has created, what Hill says about it all is so dead on it should be required reading for every executive inside the network.
—Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2024
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“Required reading.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/required%20reading. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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