necessity
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"Migration is a necessity," EU commissioner Dubravka Suica told reporters.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
Cable TV audiences are shrinking rapidly, and cinema attendance faces intense, ongoing pressure from tech giants and streaming platforms, making scale an economic necessity.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
In immigrant households, it is a necessity born of language barriers; children help translate bills and handle household finances from an early age, in some cases graduating to sophisticated investment advice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
The drivers for older entrepreneurship can include necessity — older adults don’t have enough to retire on and need additional money — as well as lower traditional employment options due to ageism, Kelley said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
‘Lying is wrong unless you’re faced with something that is so much more wrong that it makes it a necessity.’
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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These ranchers have also grappled with high costs for necessities like animal feed, pasture maintenance and farm labor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Both women said that so many people have provided them with food and basic necessities since the incident.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
For some, that includes cutting back on other necessities such as food, budgeting strictly to afford half a tank of gas a week and rethinking side hustles such as food delivery service.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
Ideal sites needed reliable access to water and other necessities, along with landscape features that could help drive and contain bison herds.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026
They relied on local Indigenous people to help them find necessities such as water and medicinal herbs.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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