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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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Their findings suggest that many previous studies may need to be revisited.

From Science Daily • May 23, 2026

“I’m continuing to work with emergency personnel to ensure that residents are safe and have the resources they need while officials work to mitigate the impacts of the hazmat incident.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

The data-center boom is so lucrative that companies no longer need to cater to consumers as they did in the past, Burke told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch • May 23, 2026

Accepting differences also shows that you aren’t a fair-weather friend, she says, but someone who is going to be there if you need them.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

She hasn’t said so, but I don’t need to be a genius to figure out who keeps calling and texting her.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam




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