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require

[ri-kwahyuhr] / rɪˈkwaɪər /




Usage

What are other ways to say require? The verb require, which expresses necessity, 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. Need often suggests urgency, stressing the necessity of supplying what is lacking: to need an operation, better food, a match to light the fire.

Example Sentences

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Maintaining control of the area would require an invasion, military analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal

Habermas was born with a cleft palate that required repeated operations as a child, an experience he later said helped shape his thinking about language and communication.

From BBC

The plea agreement requires Regan to forfeit all proceeds traceable to his schemes.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Organizing an operation of this scale under such unusual conditions required an exceptional level of coordination.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The overall industry faces “minimal risk of AI disruption,” Marshall wrote, as cybersecurity requires real-time results and near-100% accuracy — characteristics that large language models today lack.

From MarketWatch