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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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Now, with Egypt winning, it looked as though the Scots would require two from Saturday's three unsettled groups to come through for them.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2026

The upgrade will require fully replacing the components in 1.2 kilometres of the 27-kilometre tunnel.

From Barron's • Jun. 27, 2026

I am not Harry Potter, and I don’t have a magic wand, but achieving this vision shouldn’t require magic — just discipline and collaboration.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 27, 2026

These programs aren’t draconian and don’t require people to be on lifelong restrictive diets, so sticking with them is easier.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026

Her mind boggled at the wealth gold-embroidered clothing must require.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack




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