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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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“They put nets where you have really big fall zones and high-speed sections, places where you need that extra level of protection,” Morse said.

From Los Angeles Times

Raman has been delivering a similarly complicated message, expressing deep respect for the mayor while arguing that the city is in desperate need of change.

From Los Angeles Times

She sought his advice on a potential investment when the club needed financing, input on exercise equipment and such details as how to manage her American Express bill.

From The Wall Street Journal

When she joined the club, she had never done cross country before and the club struggled to get the four women needed to make up a team.

From BBC

Its story started nearly a decade ago when families of children with disabilities needed accessible areas where they could play alongside their siblings and friends.

From BBC