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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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We need it to clean up things like fertilizer, chemicals and aviation fuel — products without cheaper clean alternatives that are made in specialized industrial complexes overseen by trained technicians.

From Los Angeles Times

Over time, Manuel said he began to feel uncomfortable with Banks’ insistence that “ANTM” needed to constantly reinvent, even at the expense of their original mission to uplift young models.

From Los Angeles Times

However, in a Feb. 6 letter to the board of education, a coalition of three unions questioned the need for cuts in a letter to officials.

From Los Angeles Times

Funding services like Northlands is an ongoing battle for those who run it, who said what they receive is not "even close" to what is needed.

From BBC

Realistically, they need victories in at least four of their final five matches to have any chance of salvaging a place in Friday's last four - and they began that quest well.

From BBC