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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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I would get their phone numbers and meet up with them, and my parents would be like, “Noah, this is not normal. You need to create boundaries with them.”

From Los Angeles Times

"The role of the Church should be a healing presence in our nation, bringing people together at times of often intense division, caring deeply for those who need our help."

From BBC

But any deal will ultimately need Russian buy-in, which does not seem forthcoming - and which the alleged drone incident over Putin's residence may have pushed further into the distance.

From BBC

State lawmakers would need to approve any additional funding to the city or tax increases.

From The Wall Street Journal

The conflict in Ukraine has served as a testing ground for the Kim regime, identifying a need to modernize its aging Soviet-era military equipment.

From The Wall Street Journal