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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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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is visiting allies in the Gulf, last night meeting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who agreed on the need for a lasting peace.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

De Meo is probing whether that model still holds—or whether brands need to tune production more closely to what clients are actually buying, and adjust faster when tastes shift.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

The head coach and his staff will need no reminding they need to make that time count in what feels like a defining few months on Tyneside.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

For that to happen, though, oil prices will need to cooperate.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

Not to mention that she’s wearing sweatpants that have seen too many wears, and a way-too-big T-shirt that says “I need vitamin sea” that I’m pretty sure is her dad’s.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam