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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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A charity food van that gives out free meals to those who need it is back in action during the school half-term break in Jersey.

From BBC

"Well, we need to celebrate Edwin's first cap, that is for sure as it is one amazing story," Farrell said.

From BBC

Italy needed 30 from the last 12 balls but Sam Curran had Stewart caught at short third.

From BBC

For those hoping to get into the sport, Stoecker advised: "You need guts, and you need a dream."

From BBC

To survive though, they warn companies will need to find ways to meet demand for seamless AI, they said.

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