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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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To achieve that, the companies need to have costly high-end chips, build expansive data centers, manage power requirements and recruit top-tier researchers who demand multimillion-dollar offers.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Either that, or just sit back and enjoy the World Cup, let football be the winner – and just hope that there's no need to try and work out who to back in 2030.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

And our team will be deployed around the country to bring you all the news and analysis you need.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

“They need to have places to socialize properly,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

“Don’t give me that look; you know we need to stand up to these hateful morons. If we don’t try to stop them now…” she continues.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold




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