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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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But Hill realized the need for an all-ages venue in Orange County.

From Los Angeles Times

With three key players out because of injury and USC in desperate need of depth, the Trojans are taking the rare step of adding reinforcements at the midseason mark.

From Los Angeles Times

Authorities say many off-duty first responders travelled to Bondi on Sunday - from as far as two hours away - simply because they knew there was a need.

From BBC

He added: "Each, through their quiet determination, has brought about promises of change in the hope that in the future, other families need not go through what they have been through."

From BBC

Cairo has aspired to become the key gas hub for the region, but its own gas production has decreased in recent years while domestic needs have increased, magnifying its reliance on imported gas from Israel.

From The Wall Street Journal