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require

[ri-kwahyuhr] / rɪˈkwaɪər /




Usage

What are other ways to say require? The verb require, which expresses necessity, 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. Need often suggests urgency, stressing the necessity of supplying what is lacking: to need an operation, better food, a match to light the fire.

Example Sentences

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Gene therapies for tiny patient populations, the kind of product that requires regulatory flexibility, became targets of shifting standards and surprise objections.

From The Wall Street Journal

Many require navigating sometimes tricky relationships with land managers who may have different priorities.

From Los Angeles Times

The BBC required the group's permission to report in the city, and its operatives appeared wherever our teams went - though they had no control over our output.

From BBC

Prescott, a German youth international who plays for Bayern's under-19s, will require clearance from German labour authorities to work in the evening as he is a teenager.

From BBC

“It’s not an easy pill to take,” one physician told MarketWatch about the strict rules required to take the Wegovy pill.

From MarketWatch