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needed

Definition for needed

adjective as in wanted

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Four weeks after the injections, all 20 of the participants had developed the antibodies needed to stave off the infection.

Abramoff said that the governor needed to remember to “be humble.”

This was nine fewer than what he needed just two years ago when 426 members of the House voted.

Perhaps, as Dwight Garner wrote, Steinberg just needed an idea for a book.

For the Brogpas, transforming into a tourist attraction may offer their community a way to generate much-needed income.

More laborers are needed for the Jesuit missions, as well as for those conducted by the friars.

First, how about the expansibility needed to supply adequate funds for crop-moving?

Now, on my first day here, you pay me back for what I did then—as if it needed paying back!

“It means, my dear, that the Dragoons and the 60th will have to teach these impudent rebels a much-needed lesson,” said her uncle.

And since he was glad enough to do that, Mrs. Robin managed to feed her children all they needed.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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