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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.

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Technology companies like Google and Meta, which require round-the-clock electricity for their data centers, are among companies building storage capacity.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Further spending growth in 2027 is likely to require more borrowing.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

The key, they believed, was to put in place protocols that would require communications companies to respond more quickly to police in cases of stalking or domestic violence.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

That’s a game changer, Newman said, because traditional computing is not very good at achieving solutions in those areas that require lots and lots of computing power to be thrown at them.

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

Booth would require the type of help Surratt could provide along his escape south.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson




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