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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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From Salon

The 51-year-old believes the tax needs to change to take the pressure off cafes and restaurants.

From BBC

A Welsh Labour spokesperson said they were "committed to ensuring the NHS in Wales has the staff it needs now and in the future" through a long-term workforce plan.

From BBC

"Once they leave, things return to chaos – they need to be here permanently," the father of three said.

From BBC

“The Russians said: look, they’re all spying on us, so we need our own infrastructure, our own internet.”

From The Wall Street Journal