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need

noun as in emergency; pressing lack

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Vosloo led the drafting of a new set of guidelines from Unicef designed to help governments and companies develop AI policies that consider children’s needs.

That raises the question of a marketer’s need for NBCU’s measurement program if it already has one in place.

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The project will be the first in the county to recycle wastewater, providing more than 32 percent of the city’s needs, according to a Wednesday press release.

It seemed like there was no need for the justification because of the decree.

The ability to develop digital capabilities quickly will continue to be critical for meeting customer needs and ensuring survival for your organization.

Citizens, perhaps, need to feel like they can communicate something to science.

We need to recover and grow the idea that the proper answer to bad speech is more and better speech.

To do so is to deify a celebrity for being what we need them to be, while willfully ignoring who they really are.

Sadly, it appears the American press often doesn't need any outside help when it comes to censoring themselves.

The need for an Ebola vaccine in West Africa has never been greater.

What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?

You need but will, and it is done; but if you relax your efforts, you will be ruined; for ruin and recovery are both from within.

Honour the physician for the need thou hast of him: for the most High hath created him.

I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.

She did not need a great cook-book; She knew how much and what it took To make things good and sweet and light.

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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. 

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On this page you'll find 230 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to need, such as: commitment, demand, obligation, right, urgency, and use.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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