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need

[need] / nid /






Usage

What are other ways to say need? The verb need often suggests urgency, stressing the necessity of supplying what is lacking: to need an operation, better food, a match to light the fire. Require, which expresses necessity as strongly as need, 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. 

Example Sentences

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Ministers proposed waiting until 2035 before significantly ramping up the rollout of the low-carbon alternative to gas and oil-fired boilers, with the vast majority needing to be completed just 10 years later.

From BBC

However, since funding has been frozen Kansas City deputy chief of police Joseph Mabin said his department does not have enough staff to cover the city's security needs.

From BBC

The US Department of Justice had indicted a large number of top executives and it needed root-and-branch reform.

From BBC

South Korea has recorded its biggest annual birth rate bump in 15 years, official figures showed Wednesday, but still far below the threshold needed to stop its population shrinking.

From Barron's

"What we need is the truth behind the Easter attacks. We want to see justice for all the victims," church spokesman Father Cyril Gamini Fernando told AFP.

From Barron's