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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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Still needs a score in what are likely to be more traditional conditions in Sydney.

From BBC

The new results suggest scientists need to be cautious, since the assumption of an unchanging black hole environment over cosmic time may not hold.

From Science Daily

There was a hint of tension when Jamie Smith faced his first ball with 10 needed to win, only for his clip off Starc for three to bring the Barmy Army to their feet.

From BBC

Mia began her work on an authentic stitch-by-stitch copy of the original 11th Century embroidery in 2016 "because I just wanted something to do and needed a project I couldn't finish in a hurry".

From BBC

New Zealand, traditionally the islands’ biggest aid provider, paused funding, saying that steps needed to be taken to “repair confidence and trust” between both countries.

From The Wall Street Journal