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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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Spurs will need him to do the same now as he showed here just how vital he could prove to be in tandem with the tireless Dominic Solanke.

From BBC

“If we really want to stop the war, we need to meet — on the level of leaders and technical groups.”

From Salon

"We need to use it as momentum and hopefully another step forward to working hard to achieve our dreams."

From BBC

The players needed some love, and he has given them that.

From BBC

Army Rangers or other combat troops would be needed to secure perimeters, former military officials said.

From The Wall Street Journal