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need

noun as in emergency; pressing lack

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Example Sentences

The authors mention that although there's a need for more oversight in ensuring supplements have enough of each ingredient, prenatal supplements are still important to take during pregnancy.

"These concentration estimates are the first steps in a larger monitoring effort, with further experimentation needed to determine the effects of time, distance and environmental factors on DNA detection rates," said Bahder.

Yet, to limit warming to this level, humanity would need to rapidly decarbonize -- temperatures are on track to climb to 2.8 degrees celsius in patagonia by the end of the century if current emissions persist.

Therefore, there is an urgent need for alternatives that minimise these risks.

But also be there as someone who makes her better and helps her when she needs it.

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What are other ways to say need?

The verb need often suggests urgency, stressing the necessity of supplying what is lacking: to need an operation, better food, a match to light the fire. Require, which expresses necessity as strongly as need, 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. 

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

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