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need

[need] / nid /






Usage

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. 

Example Sentences

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"We need prices to stabilise to ease the cost of living, and we need to support Welsh Water in upgrading our network," it said.

From BBC

So, a lot of arrivals, absences and exits, but the net result is likely to be a greater need for Emery to use Elliott.

From BBC

Finding themselves drifting further and further out from Quindalup beach, in Western Australia, Joanne realised she needed to do something - but she couldn't leave Beau, 12, and Grace, eight, alone.

From BBC

BP needs to demonstrate that higher spending on oil-and-gas production will deliver value for shareholders, a group of investors in the energy major said Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal

By allowing galaxies and stars to form earlier than they otherwise would have, dark matter also helped create the conditions needed for planets to develop.

From Science Daily