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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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Several support policies announced so far have one thing in common: They don’t require big upfront spending.

From The Wall Street Journal

Other systems like aifreecert require payment and have a strict process of vetting whether or not a product has used AI or not.

From BBC

Perpetual will license its Perpetual Private and Perpetual Wealth brands to Bain Capital for 15 years as part of the deal, which requires approval by Australia’s foreign investment regulator.

From The Wall Street Journal

The question is whether the consumer AI transformation requires a half-trillion dollars in centralized infrastructure—or 2.5 billion devices that are already built and paid for.

From The Wall Street Journal

Last year the U.S. imposed sanctions on Chinese and Iranian entities that supplied materials used in Iran’s ballistic-missile program, including chemicals required to produce rocket fuel.

From The Wall Street Journal