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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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In order to win, Mendoza and his teammates need to play the way they have all season.

From Los Angeles Times

That will force women to drop out of the workforce to provide needed care for loved ones.

From MarketWatch

These rare cells generate all major types of blood and immune cells needed for oxygen transport and protection against infection.

From Science Daily

If you do want to sell your silver items — whether it’s a set of cutlery you inherited from grandma or coins you collected long ago — what do you need to know?

From MarketWatch

If you do want to sell your silver items — whether it’s a set of cutlery you inherited from grandma or coins you collected long ago — what do you need to know?

From MarketWatch