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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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The team in a report released this week cautioned that these gaps need to be addressed to “avoid creating a self-reinforcing cycle of biases, underrepresentation and weaker productivity gains.”

From Barron's

But now that I’m pushing 50, I’m more conscious of the need to prioritize.

From The Wall Street Journal

Practically, that means the vehicles need to be used more than a traditional car running in a ride-hailing fleet.

From The Wall Street Journal

This suggests it is Arteta who is in urgent need of breaking the cycle of finishing empty-handed.

From BBC

It outlined the "significant funding constraints impacting delivery of upgrades needed to support housing, economic growth and environmental protection".

From BBC