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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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Rekindled blazes are raising questions about whether agencies need to rethink how they ensure fires are truly extinguished.

From Los Angeles Times

Hardy put forward her best friend - a teaching assistant of children with additional educational needs - who she said "totally deserves it".

From BBC

But before the underwater de-mining mission can even begin, Vitalii's group needs to identify the object, as missiles and a wealth of World War Two unexploded bombs sit on the seabed alongside Russian sea mines.

From BBC

But if you do not need a particular seat and you are not bothered about sitting with your travel companions, you can just let the airline allocate you a place.

From BBC

"We need statutory guidance. If every school is doing the same thing, then it's fair and we'd be more likely to get the buy-in from the parents and the families that we need."

From BBC