necessities

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The lawsuit comes as consumers report struggling to afford basic necessities.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2026

Tenants “deserve to live in dignity with basic necessities like working stoves and ovens.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026

Ideal sites needed reliable access to water and other necessities, along with landscape features that could help drive and contain bison herds.

From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026

For instance, the average cost of basic necessities for a married couple with kids, about one-fifth of U.S. households, is now more than $5,800 per month.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

As population density increases, the territory of that band-sized population of a few dozen would shrink to a small area, with more and more of life’s necessities having to be obtained outside the area.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond