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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 need to do much better to settle things down and to convert our chances," he added.

From Barron's

All you need to know is that Dunk meets Egg at a roadside inn.

From Salon

"But there's definitely a standard and expectation we need to live up to. That's our challenge."

From BBC

Instead of this "blunt response", a "broader and more targeted" approach was needed, said the statement, which was also signed by two child mental health practitioners.

From BBC

That is especially true in competitive electricity markets where he says power producers haven’t had a financial incentive to invest sufficient capital into plant maintenance or new construction but new power generation is now needed.

From The Wall Street Journal