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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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"We cannot assert that these returns are sustainable, but they are a signal, and signals require investment to become something lasting," Goodstein said.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

More than one-third of entry-level positions now explicitly require AI-related skills.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

The AI boom might also displace workers or require the retraining of recent college graduates.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026

Waterkeeper and other environmental groups successfully used the same provision to convince the EPA in 2024 to require permits for businesses near the polluted Dominguez Channel and Los Cerritos Channel in L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

“The atmospheric evaluation will require a...test subject. A chaperone of our own to explore the planet with Zeta unit.”

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera




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