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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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That’s a game changer, Newman said, because traditional computing is not very good at achieving solutions in those areas that require lots and lots of computing power to be thrown at them.

From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026

Withdrawing any equipment with an initial purchase value of more than $500,000 would require similar assessments.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

The paradox arises only if we insist on describing horizons using a single, one-sided arrow of time extrapolated to infinity — an assumption quantum mechanics itself does not require.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

Nepali tourism officials said the final number will be tallied after the climbs are verified, which require photographs and statements from the climber's expedition company and guides.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

Maybe finding Wonders would require some asking, though speaking up did not come naturally to me, as Aunt Pretty liked to point out.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney




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