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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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At the same time, he remained "very aware of the care that is required to maintain these delicate works", which can easily be damaged by light exposure.

From Barron's

If it infringed free speech for the SEC rule to require potential corporate acquirers to disclose their 5% stake in a stock, then most financial disclosure requirements would fail muster, the judge said.

From Barron's

The NBA had said in recent months that it would adjust roster sizes as needed to ensure all three teams had at least eight players, the minimum required under the new format.

From Los Angeles Times

Police records seen by the BBC also showed that although police had identified some suspects, the group were treated as "individuals requiring safeguarding" rather than as potential offenders involved in extortion or blackmail.

From BBC

That’s in part for requirements such as Europe’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, which will require nature and biodiversity reporting.

From The Wall Street Journal