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need

[need] / nid /






Usage

What are other ways to say need? The verb need often suggests urgency, stressing the necessity of supplying what is lacking: to need an operation, better food, a match to light the fire. Require, which expresses necessity as strongly as need, 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. 

Example Sentences

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Retirement savings have decades to compound and may need to support him and his wife for 30 years or more, making the tax break more valuable.

From The Wall Street Journal

Close said the loss to Connecticut taught her that she needs to direct her players to attack differently.

From Los Angeles Times

This saw the capsule dip into the upper atmosphere, briefly climb again, then plunge back in so as to best cope with the heat, G-forces and splashdown accuracy needed.

From BBC

Analysts have debated the state of Nike’s efforts to cut costs, make more products that suit athletes’ needs, and push further into running shoes and women’s apparel.

From MarketWatch

“I’m committed to taking the time needed to return in a healthier, stronger and more focused place, both personally and professionally,” Woods wrote on X.

From The Wall Street Journal