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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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These days he owns his own tools, like specialized torque wrenches—required by Ford—that cost up to $800 apiece.

From The Wall Street Journal

For the U.S., more recent conflicts in Afghanistan and the Middle East required less electronic warfare.

From The Wall Street Journal

But companies are legally required to report the tow to police.

From Los Angeles Times

They are operating at about 10% of nameplate capacity and, according to a Venezuela Hydrocarbon Association estimate, would require over $10 billion to bring them to 80% of capacity, she said.

From MarketWatch

Had the three-member panel not acted, the ruling, by a federal district judge, would have required immediate changes to policies at hundreds of school systems up and down the state.

From Los Angeles Times