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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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At the meeting, U.S. officials stressed the need for greater coordination to stop drone incursions into U.S. airspace.

From Los Angeles Times

It makes more sense that the feeling of family promised by rock touring life would appeal to Charlie Brown; it often calls to creative dreamers and outcasts with a subconscious need to belong.

From Los Angeles Times

"We need to win this kind of match. We need to play as a team, not as individuals," the current Ballon d'Or Dembele said.

From Barron's

"We think this initiative is very important because we need to take care not only of our bodies in these difficult situations without heating, without electricity," she said.

From Barron's

The British billionaire insisted that "open debate" on the issue was needed.

From Barron's