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"The talented young players that we have need minutes, and Ethan wasn't getting enough minutes," said Arteta.

From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026

While no-one can predict whether any potential buyer would have need for the cranes, they come with their own insurance policy.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2024

“Architecture does not have that lineage, nor history. There are so few Black architects, architectural theorists and historians. The few that we have need to be studied and understood.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2021

God created differences, Winthrop avowed, so that “every man might have need of others, and from hence they might be all knit more nearly together in the Bonds of brotherly affection.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 21, 2018

They were waystations and anybody, everybody, might have need of shelter.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison