necessitate

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Danske’s Carsten Lonborg Madsen had pencilled in a revenue decline of between zero and minus 8% so the minus 5% to minus 13% range will necessitate a downgrade from him.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 4, 2026

What has changed to necessitate a midnight curfew being imposed in Sri Lanka?

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026

Maersk said it has contingency plans in place should the security situation deteriorate, which may necessitate reverting individual sailings or the wider service back to the Cape of Good Hope route.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

Yet as Capital Economics’ Jonas Goltermann notes, the fact that high costs of data center buildouts will necessitate more debt going forward alone doesn’t change their view the AI-boom has further to run.

From Barron's • Nov. 3, 2025

Joe threw his eye over them, and pronounced that the job would necessitate the lighting of his forge fire, and would take nearer two hours than one.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens