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need

noun as in emergency; pressing lack

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Citizens, perhaps, need to feel like they can communicate something to science.

We need to recover and grow the idea that the proper answer to bad speech is more and better speech.

To do so is to deify a celebrity for being what we need them to be, while willfully ignoring who they really are.

Sadly, it appears the American press often doesn't need any outside help when it comes to censoring themselves.

The need for an Ebola vaccine in West Africa has never been greater.

What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?

You need but will, and it is done; but if you relax your efforts, you will be ruined; for ruin and recovery are both from within.

Honour the physician for the need thou hast of him: for the most High hath created him.

I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.

She did not need a great cook-book; She knew how much and what it took To make things good and sweet and light.

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On this page you'll find 230 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to need, such as: commitment, demand, obligation, right, urgency, and use.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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