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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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Although the Rams have already qualified for the playoffs, they need to regain their balance after a spirit-snapping loss at Seattle on Thursday that likely cost them a chance at the NFC’s No. 1 seed.

From Los Angeles Times

The government and Lai's Hong Kong legal team have said that his medical needs are being met.

From BBC

"I have a player that is extremely passionate, and if you have a passionate player then you need to go to the line sometimes."

From BBC

“Epstein’s survivors and the American people need answers now.”

From Los Angeles Times

Supported by the California Health Care Foundation, which works to ensure that people have access to the care they need, when they need it, at a price they can afford.

From Los Angeles Times