necessary
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Starship is necessary to achieve many of SpaceX’s goals, and most analysts covering the company warn that potential delays with the program pose a risk to their ambitious forecasts.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Breakfast is necessary; brunch should feel as though someone has added a flourish.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
The BEA has described the coming changes as routine adjustments necessary to make the statistics as faithful as possible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
"This is because the authorities were not permitted to conduct autopsies on the bodies of the deceased, and therefore lacked the forensic evidence necessary to determine the cause of death," it said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Not to say that he wouldn’t be willing to take a burrow by force if necessary, for the blood of conquerors flowed vigorously through his veins.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
Latinos are necessaries for the North American community.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2025
Meanwhile, lingering inflation has still been high enough to hold back spending by consumers who had to set more money aside for necessaries like food and utility bills.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 31, 2023
I’ve promised myself “Little Dorrit” this year and some other unopened necessaries.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2020
“In the last years of her life, before Congress purchased her husband’s papers, she was in a state of absolute poverty, and I think sometimes suffered for the necessaries of life,” Jennings wrote.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 7, 2018
Papa said he would ready a shipment of clothing, money, and other necessaries and send it along just as soon as he could.
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
Vocabulary lists containing necessary
Commonly Misspelled Words, List 1
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Very Necessary: Synonyms for "Important"
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