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need

[need] / nid /






Usage

What are other ways to say need? The verb need often suggests urgency, stressing the necessity of supplying what is lacking: to need an operation, better food, a match to light the fire. Require, which expresses necessity as strongly as need, occurs most frequently in serious or formal contexts: Your presence at the hearing is required. Successful experimentation requires careful attention to detail. Lack means to be without or to have less than a desirable quantity of something: to lack courage, sufficient money, enough members to make a quorum. 

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THE ADD ON WE DIDN’T NEED: Three art prints that will likely remain tucked away, unseen and not on display, deep inside the box.

From Washington Times • Nov. 25, 2014

THE ADD ON WE DIDN’T NEED: All 53 cuts were previously released, so there’s no 13th take of a hit or leftovers pulled from the trash bin.

From Washington Times • Nov. 25, 2014

The uproar of their differences in Faith, each seeking to be justified, is stilled before the Great Reality of those really and truly in Human NEED.

From Over the Fireside with Silent Friends by King, Richard

It is, in a word, the human social NEED, in all its circumference, clearly sketched, laid out, scientifically, as the basis of the human social ART.

From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Bacon, Delia

Moreover, the real difficulty is not to see what the classes on whom the problem presses most grimly NEED, but what they WANT.

From The Altar Fire by Benson, Arthur Christopher




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