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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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Would it be worth pursuing a professional degree that would require a massive amount of student loans?

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026

MEERUT, India—Understanding the youth protests rocking India doesn’t require attending a demonstration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

This combination could enable computer memory and logic components that require significantly less energy than existing technologies.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026

That may be exactly what these kinds of races require: absurd self-conviction, in the face of long odds.

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2026

An easy question but one that would require some knowledge of the book beyond the general summary.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

An Ofsted report in 2021 ranked the school as "requires improvement".

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

Successfully completing these tasks requires the system to store, control, and maintain coherent relationships among multiple quantum states at the same time.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

“Scaling the Gemini agent to planet scale requires compute that spins up rapidly and operates with extreme efficiency,” Google vice president Gautham Thambidorai wrote in an October blog post.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

Once a borrower is enrolled, rehabilitation requires them to make nine out of 10 monthly payments, which the debt collector is required to remind them of and to track.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026

Because the weapon salve involved action over a distance, it defied a fundamental principle of Aristotelian physics, that action requires contact.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

He understood that national defense required cooperation across party lines and cultivated congressional support accordingly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

That mismatch places the bismuth ferrite under compression, helping preserve the atomic structure required for its electrical and magnetic properties to remain intact.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026

Over 180 inductees, who are required to live in California for at least five years, have been recognized over the last 20 years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

Previously, setting up a rehabilitation plan was labor- and paperwork-intensive for borrowers and even required them to fax or mail in documents.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026

There was no fear of the pattyrollers checking every black person to see if he or she had the required remit, or pass, to be out alone.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

By adapting stimulation to these changing conditions, future prostheses might provide more consistent visual experiences without requiring users to adjust to a rigid set of signals.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

Rather than requiring entirely new aerodrome construction, Eve Air Mobility plans to leverage existing airport and heliport facilities by retrofitting them with electrical charging infrastructure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

For example, a mature software company may have very wide profit margins, while an industry requiring heavy capital investment, such as industrial equipment, will likely have lower profit margins.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

Dedicated apps typically hook viewers by letting them watch the first few episodes for free, before then requiring a subscription.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

The Court's rulings had become increasingly hostile to death row prisoners and less committed to the notion that "death is different," requiring more careful review.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson


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