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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. 

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In England these will be offered in July and August through community pharmacies and there will be no need to go to the same pharmacy for both jabs.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

“Serious buyers need more than a search result,” a Redfin spokesperson told Barron’s, noting that buyers can find pre-market listings on Redfin.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

“We need unmanned systems, we need submarines, we need ships, we need auxiliary ships. We also need quality of life for our sailors and Marines.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

For foreign investors to buy shares of SpaceX, they need to have a lot of U.S. dollars.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

I don’t need a Flash to know what will happen with you two.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold




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