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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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“It’s deeply relaxing and restorative — and there’s such a need for that right now,” Faraji says of our session.

From Los Angeles Times

“That was the first thing that really made me laugh — that I would just need an entourage.”

From Los Angeles Times

Carrillo, however, said he needed to break with the past to move his career forward.

From Los Angeles Times

But the need is overwhelming and demonstrates the unabated struggles low-income and middle-class working parents face in their quest for affordable child-care slots.

From Los Angeles Times

“We don’t need the perfect rule on XYZ. We don’t even need a very good rule on XYZ,” he said, according to the meeting notes.

From Salon