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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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That bizarre on camera overshare has been endlessly chronicled, and there’s no need for me to add anything more, except to say: Bruh.

From The Wall Street Journal

Each day is brimming with things I need to accomplish.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I think we need to look at our county jails, look at our city jails,” said Cornelison, who made her living selling large appliances.

From Los Angeles Times

He needs to do that again to support the other frail Dodgers starters.

From Los Angeles Times

To understand Britain’s crisis of democracy, and how it both resembles and differs from our predicament in the Land of the Free, we need to back up a bit.

From Salon