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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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“And I need you, too. Okay? Do the work. Come home.”

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What’s more, I didn’t need reminders of my failed attempt at moving on.

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“Even if it makes you uncomfortable. You need to think of yourself less.”

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“Oh, and bring me the first little one you fry. I need some bread and honey with my tea!”

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“How’d you know I’m new?” you say at the same time as he says, “Osda! I need another interview.”

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