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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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Companies have bought back gobs of stock while turning stingy on dividends—they like that buybacks don’t require an ongoing commitment.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

As a result of the dense mesh of fiber that AI data centers require, this year Corning anticipates its data-center business will eclipse its sales to telecommunications companies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

While effective, these methods require large amounts of energy and contribute significantly to carbon emissions.

From Science Daily • Jun. 12, 2026

Thirty-five other states require coverage of children’s hearing aids — through a state mandate for all insurers, their affordable care act insurance or both.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

“The atmospheric evaluation will require a...test subject. A chaperone of our own to explore the planet with Zeta unit.”

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera




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