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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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In this model, proteins drift until they eventually reach where they are needed.

From Science Daily

So on his new record, “Octane,” the Houston rapper recenters his car obsession and turns to his need for speed as sonic inspiration.

From Los Angeles Times

“When people step into the Joy Who Lived, they know they’re going to be cared for, and that includes being allowed to laugh; we desperately need to laugh,” Gibson says.

From Los Angeles Times

“It was a central and safe place for everyone to retreat to whenever they need it,” the family wrote.

From Los Angeles Times

“Autistic people have unique communication needs, yet crisis supports were not created with autistic needs in mind.”

From Los Angeles Times