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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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"I don't know why I would ever feel the need to physically harm a child," said Mari.

From BBC

The move comes as new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is keen that inflation comes down but also needs the cost of government borrowing to be cheap.

From BBC

The agreement, which leaders said would meet Ukraine's military and economic needs for the next two years, came after more than a day of talks at a summit in Brussels.

From BBC

“That was tried last time … I think we need to focus on what people want.”

From The Wall Street Journal

"You can automate more, but you still need to put in gatekeeping right along the path, to make sure that you can safeguard the process," says Mr Ogen.

From BBC