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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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“We just need to do more for others,” Butler said.

From Los Angeles Times

Fitzgerald Mosley will need the help of her ostensible supporters if she wants to say just that.

From Salon

Medical experts agree that the HPV vaccine does not need further scrutiny.

From Salon

She also admitted the government "need to do better" in how data is gathered from pupils.

From BBC

Morag says there is no need to pack lots of toys on these trips because sensory learning is free.

From BBC