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  • past participle of need.
  • past tense form of need.
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needed

[nee-did] / ˈni dɪd /


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More recently, when McGill’s daughter needed money for a down payment on a place whose monthly payments she could manage herself, dad obliged.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

While higher energies make it easier to create the hot, dense conditions needed for quark-gluon plasma, lower-energy experiments may be more useful for determining precisely when those conditions are no longer sufficient.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

Sarah said more focus, support and research was needed for childhood cancers and that funding was "harrowing" compared to adult cancers.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

"This analysis is pushing the boundaries to an extreme case to help us learn something about this jet quenching phenomenon and the conditions needed to generate a QGP."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

She prides herself on having any and everything that might be needed throughout the day.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold


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