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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.

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More than one-third of entry-level positions now explicitly require AI-related skills.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

To generate that kind of return will require SpaceX to earn a market valuation of $300 trillion.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

The company faced about $1.7 billion in annual obligations tied to its preferred-share instruments, which are hybrid securities that sit above common stock and typically require regular dividend payments to investors, according to public filings.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026

Waterkeeper and other environmental groups successfully used the same provision to convince the EPA in 2024 to require permits for businesses near the polluted Dominguez Channel and Los Cerritos Channel in L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

If there are pets that require care, that’s another five dollars per hour.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller




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