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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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Despite years of industry leaders vocalizing a need for greater diversity in executive suites and decision-making roles, and the chronic inequity remaining a punchline for award show jokes, the climate has changed.

From Los Angeles Times

"She's very good at the macro vision of what the film needed to be and she had a clear idea of which threads of the books she was going to keep", she said.

From BBC

"You've got to find ways to still be effective out there and still be able to play a role for what the team needs," added Murphy.

From BBC

I would get their phone numbers and meet up with them, and my parents would be like, “Noah, this is not normal. You need to create boundaries with them.”

From Los Angeles Times

"The role of the Church should be a healing presence in our nation, bringing people together at times of often intense division, caring deeply for those who need our help."

From BBC