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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. 

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So, with England now facing the massive challenge of playing Mexico at the Azteca Stadium in the last 16, they will need to step it up.

From BBC • Jul. 2, 2026

That will need storing, with increased personalized data and ads also ramping up content, he said.

From MarketWatch • Jul. 2, 2026

Analysts say SpaceX would need a ground network to provide links to locations satellites can’t service well, like inside of buildings or tunnels.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 2, 2026

We need not act like a superpower, he noted, but merely be one nation, no more and no less, among many.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2026

“I don’t know what all y’all doing out there that you need to be so loud,” Lou yells.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold




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