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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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Here’s everything you need to know about the matches through the opening days of the 39-day, 48-team tournament across the U.S.,

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Either that, or just sit back and enjoy the World Cup, let football be the winner – and just hope that there's no need to try and work out who to back in 2030.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

But you don’t need to be from Mexico to understand the significance, reverence, and trepidation that surround this hulking pile nicknamed El Coloso de Santa Úrsula.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

But he’ll need help from his supporting cast if the U.S. is to get out of group play and this game could be key to that goal.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

“You’re important to me. Pa’s important. I need you both safe, to care for each other.”

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes




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