needful

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The power to change the Kennedy Center marquee resides with Congress, which has authority to “make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

Many will be young men and women who will risk prison, or worse, to deliver the facts to a needful public — even if some of the public don't want to hear it.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2022

However when pressed on exactly what this role would be, he said it would be to "evangelise and exhort everyone that she represents to do the needful" to restrict global warming.

From BBC • Aug. 4, 2021

When I slather it on—my lips are even more needful in West Texas—I usually hold out the tube, and Matt usually declines, but that’s not the part that matters.

From Slate • Mar. 22, 2021

She had done what was needful for him as a baby, but she had business of her own and once he could look after himself at all she paid no more heed to him.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin