need
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“The last thing we need is to have a pole fall onto someone or something if there are high winds,” the bureau’s Clinton Tsurui wrote in the June 4, 2025, email.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
We need not admire him politically to agree that Reagan was good at that sort of thing.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026
Even with "a substantial apprenticeship programme", he said his company could not train everyone they needed, and would need to turn to France, Germany or Poland to find personnel.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
We don’t need the money, but additional funds are always helpful.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
“What’s wrong with you? Didn’t we say that since you and I would be headed for college in only two years, Dad would need someone?”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Vocabulary lists containing need
"Principles of Business," Vocabulary from Chapter 1
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Lyrics from "Umbrella" by Rihanna
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"Inventing to Solve a Problem"
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