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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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One of the columns with the most engagement, in terms of reader comments at least, looked at how much money people feel like they need to be considered rich in America.

From MarketWatch

The date by which families need to apply is 15 January - a date set nationally, although applications are handled by local authorities.

From BBC

She added that, while the group was not publicly stating a price for the pier, those wishing to buy it would need "many millions".

From BBC

He said that she responded by telling him if he wanted to be registered as an NHS patient, he needed to book a hygienist appointment.

From BBC

England explained Jacks' selection by a need to bolster their batting.

From BBC