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require

[ri-kwahyuhr] / rΙͺˈkwaΙͺΙ™r /




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.

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All utilities have an established planning cycle, called Integrated Resource Planning, allowing them to build only what is needed and to change course if the market dynamics require it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Last year, Manilow revealed that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer and that surgery would require him to postpone several performances.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

These dynamic arrivals, that create a '3-2' or a '4-1' base, require an alertness and reaction from the opposition to track them that isn't always possible.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Across various coverage scenarios, Bernstein estimates SpaceX’s total network cost would span $50 billion to $130 billion and require anywhere from 30,000 to 120,000 tower locations.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

But all I had was Opal’s jewels, which might raise the woman’s suspicion and would definitely require far too much explanation—or a load of lies.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

It is a self-certification system which requires authors to sign a licence agreement, and so far around 6,500 titles have received the stamp.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Acknowledging this requires investors to rethink a bedrock of financial analysis: how to measure a company’s free cash flow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

It also makes the upcoming launch of Starlink Mobile, slated for 2027, more cost-effective, as low-bandwidth spectrum requires fewer cell towers than higher-frequency bands.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

In the same way that cognitive behavioral therapy teaches patients to recontextualize their thoughts and feelings to produce different behaviors, writing stand-up requires people to reexamine their struggles and recontextualize them into punch lines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Dalcroze movement requires that children listen and respond simultaneously.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

His article should be required reading for all high school athletes, their parents, coaches, and athletic directors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

"Any remaining options would have required a substantial public order intervention," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The company also said it agreed with the letter that keeping advanced AI models monitorable required a commitment from across the industry, including from OpenAI itself.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

In response, Cornell required Greek-life chapters to hire independent event monitors and submit to random security spot checks, among other changes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

HOLOSECURITY: Passcode required for emergency teleportation of subject Dr. Maria Sabio.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

They also want the court to assert oversight, determining how much pumping should be curtailed and requiring the state to develop a long-term plan under its supervision.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

It also taps into nostalgia for the toy cars, which originated after English engineer Jack Odell designed the first model to comply with a 1952 British school rule requiring toys to fit inside a matchbox.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Instead of requiring patients to wait while their cells are collected, modified, expanded, and returned, the necessary genetic engineering could potentially happen inside the patient.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

A few carefully placed words from Williams and Jefferson offered a way out, resetting expectations without requiring Warsh to depart from his own approach.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Considerations of conflict resolution, decision making, economics, and space thus converge in requiring large societies to be centralized.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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