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require

[ri-kwahyuhr] / rɪˈkwaɪər /




Usage

What are other ways to say require? The verb require, which expresses necessity, 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. Need often suggests urgency, stressing the necessity of supplying what is lacking: to need an operation, better food, a match to light the fire.

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Require diversity in trials so benefits and risks are known across populations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

Require candidates and/or newly elected officials be trained in how to work with one another.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2023

One obvious modification should be made to the program: Require the university to guarantee the loan.

From Washington Post • May 10, 2022

Require social media companies to provide greater transparency of their content moderation rules and procedures, including how their algorithms influence what users see, and enforce these disclosures through robust oversight.

From Slate • Dec. 2, 2020

Require the milker to be clean in person and dress.

From Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition by Burkett, Charles William




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