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require

[ri-kwahyuhr] / rɪˈkwaɪər /




Usage

What are other ways to say require? The verb require, which expresses necessity, 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. Need often suggests urgency, stressing the necessity of supplying what is lacking: to need an operation, better food, a match to light the fire.

Example Sentences

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Framework Convention on Climate Change, a treaty aimed at stabilizing greenhouse-gas concentrations and requiring member states to submit annual inventories of their emissions.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Many have said they’d like to learn, but once they try it and realize how much time, patience and practice it requires ... they just can’t keep it up.”

From Los Angeles Times

Although disclaiming any such intent, the federal court here required a “historical twin” — that is, previous legislation that banned open carry.

From Los Angeles Times

As robots take their usual spotlight at the annual CES gadget fest, insiders caution that making them truly like humans will take several more years and require lots of training.

From Barron's

The fund requires such high dividend yields that it has 0% in tech, but double-digit-size holdings in utilities, healthcare, energy, financial services, and consumer defensive stocks.

From Barron's