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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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"To continue to use wastewater safely, we need a more sophisticated understanding of where and how crop species metabolize, or break down, agents in the water."

From Science Daily

Levin says the military will probably need to bolster its munitions stockpile at the rate the conflict is going.

From Los Angeles Times

January is for spreadsheets—you’ll need first, second, maybe third choices.

From The Wall Street Journal

“What she needs is a steak,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times

She said, following both experiences, her perception of life back on Earth and the need to protect the planet had been heightened.

From BBC