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require
verb as in need, want
Strongest match
Weak matches
depend upon, feel necessity for, have need, hurting for, stand in need
verb as in ask, demand; necessitate
Example Sentences
Some have hypothesized that females inherently require less sleep.
The union also argued that planned interviews constituted “significant and adverse changes to the terms and conditions of employment” and thus required bargaining.
This requires further clinical trials and improvements to the programme.
Extracellular, doubly charged copper ions are reduced to singly charged copper, transported into the cell, stored in pools, and transferred to the biomolecules that require them on demand.
It is important not to jump to conclusions about the role of NAD in the ageing process, though, as more research is required to fully understand the implications and possibilities of NAD.
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When To Use
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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