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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.

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Disney said it didn’t pay these creators to attend the trip, beyond covering their accommodations, and didn’t require them to share a certain number of posts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

National fraternity and sorority organizations, and colleges, sometimes require sober monitors too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

"Other types of aggressive behaviors, like head-on displays, are more about communication and social assessment and require very little energy."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

In the long-term the data centre would require a connection of 150MW from the national grid.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

“Your jokes require lengthy understanding of the topic it’s based on, which is quite taxing, I find.”

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

Both involve questions about what Americans eat, but investigating foodborne illness requires a rather different kind of governmental attention.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

Meeting the electricity demands of large new data centres often requires major infrastructure upgrades, adding to connection delays.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

For years, he said, he’d been promising tribes and landowners their concerns would be addressed as the law requires.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Under that document, eliminating or watering down the trust’s power requires its support, plus, in various cases, support from three quarters of the board or shareholder majorities as high as 85%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Recognizing both science’s limitations and its strengths requires a peculiar mixture of scepticism and confidence; relativists overdo the scepticism and realists overdo the confidence.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

During Bad Lettuce Summer, even the official answers required some translation.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

In the fall of 2023, the university required students interested in pursuing computer science to complete an additional application step in order to apply for the major.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Others include the construction of a massive White House ballroom that required demolishing the entire historic East Wing, overhauling the Kennedy Center arts venue and plans for an immense triumphal arch.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

The application was originally submitted to Bradford Council planners, but was not passed on the grounds of non-determination - meaning a decision was not made within the required timeframe.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

“Before this matter proceeds any further,” Lemuel interrupted, “What is the girl’s sin? What is she required to repent of?”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Some people said they had been moved into SEA despite them not requiring support.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

What was supposed to simplify dinner can turn it into another administrative process requiring a charged device and a willingness to look at it.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

“The Spirits” has no Ebenezer Scrooge requiring supernatural intervention to see the evil of his ways.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

US regulators have published a consent order requiring Bank of America to work with a third party to identify and report suspicious transactions that went undetected.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Unlike most courses, this one took students off campus, requiring them to spend the month with an organization doing social justice work.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson


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