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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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Beyond those obvious differences, scientists needed to determine whether each second on Mars passes at the same rate as it does on Earth.

From Science Daily

"It's a shock, but as always, we need to await the full facts without speculation."

From BBC

Unlike many chatbots which need to be repeatedly asked for things before a user can get their desired response, Manus says its service can plan, execute and complete tasks independently in accordance with instructions.

From BBC

To get it going again it needs substantial investment, partly to rebuild the destroyed Kakhovka hydro-electric dam that was used to provide cooling water for the plant.

From BBC

Silver looks expensive based on the amount of the precious metal needed to buy oil, with the price relationship between the two commodities entering uncharted territory, according to DataTrek Research.

From MarketWatch