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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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They also need to draft a shutdown corner or two.

From Los Angeles Times

But there are students who are not receiving speech therapy, who need it, and a lot of students who are receiving just some of the services that they need to access their education.

From Los Angeles Times

It helps you be more intentional about what you buy and what you cook: which meals are worth extending your energy on, and which ones just need to be reliably good.

From Salon

At that time Sabalenka had a reputation as a player lacking the mental resilience needed to become a serial winner.

From BBC

Forest's need for a keeper stems from a knee injury suffered by John Victor that is set to rule him out for the rest of the season.

From BBC