necessity
Example Sentences
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About 55% of young adults who moved back home said it was out of financial necessity, according to a spring survey by financial services firm Thrivent.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 5, 2026
For the creator of the short-lived Disney cartoon “Gravity Falls,” necessity was the mother of invention.
From Salon • Jun. 30, 2026
Even though you decided to claim at 62, which sounds like a decision born of necessity, your benefits are still reviewed every year, given that you’re still working.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 29, 2026
The feeling was familiar among her Los Angeles peers, many of whom had spent their 20s and 30s prioritizing other ambitions while delaying, whether by choice or economic necessity, conventional markers of adulthood.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2026
“Born of necessity and virtue, between the hammer...and the anvil...Are you there, Homer?”
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
Vocabulary lists containing necessity
Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791)
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The Ingenious Lexicon of Invention
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