needful

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The power to change the Kennedy Center marquee resides with Congress, which has authority to “make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

Many will be young men and women who will risk prison, or worse, to deliver the facts to a needful public — even if some of the public don't want to hear it.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2022

He is doing the needful to train the boy for recruitment into his Regiment.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2022

But in light of the coronavirus, this is his one thing needful: to assure Americans that he and his White House team would protect the country from the full range of global dangers.

From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2020

She had done what was needful for him as a baby, but she had business of her own and once he could look after himself at all she paid no more heed to him.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin