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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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"We felt we needed to be there. You felt you ought to be doing something."

From BBC

"I need to be in quite a calm state and I'm not at the moment," he said.

From BBC

He meant that US security guarantees needed approval from Congress in Washington DC to make them watertight.

From BBC

"When we needed him most. That is when big players and big clubs have to stand up."

From Barron's

Italian media reported that Loftus-Cheek would need dental treatment and undergo tests in hospital for possible head trauma.

From Barron's