- present participle of necessitate.
necessitating
Example Sentences
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While it is not clear what caused the incident, Orange County Fire Authority officials suspect that a cooling system failed, raising the risk of an explosion and necessitating the evacuation.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
Financial relief may help in the short term, but the reasons necessitating it aren’t yet going away.
From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026
Traders are anticipating a big chunk of U.S. production will become blocked in frozen wells when heating demand is highest, necessitating a huge drawdown of domestic stockpiles to keep furnaces and boilers running.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
Tesla is the largest holding in both ARK funds, representing more than 10% of investments, necessitating portfolio rebalancing.
From Barron's • Dec. 15, 2025
It was also notoriously brittle, necessitating the almost continual repair of the school’s fleet of shells.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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