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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.

Example Sentences

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Before retiring last year at age 71, Lowry had followed in the footsteps of other art-world mentors who taught him that leadership requires an intimate knowledge of a building’s physical space.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Iranian government requires bonds from athletes who travel abroad, often totaling thousands of dollars and sometimes including liens on houses, according to Iranian rights groups.

From The Wall Street Journal

“But it would be disingenuous to pretend AI doesn’t change the mix of skills we need or the number of roles required in certain areas. It does,” he added.

From Barron's

However, where Meta’s chips are competitive is in packing the hardware with high-bandwidth memory, required for processing huge amounts of data.

From Barron's

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have created an experimental cellular immunotherapy that requires only a single injection.

From Science Daily