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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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The conditions that Chevron would require to embark on large, yearslong projects are less restrictive than those of companies not currently operating in the country, some of the people close to the company said.

From The Wall Street Journal

The target requires 92% of patients to be seen in 18 weeks.

From BBC

Outside California and New York, more than 9% of adults have a permit—and more carry concealed weapons in “constitutional carry” states, where no permit is required.

From The Wall Street Journal

It requires enforcement of existing authorities and coordination with regulators in those jurisdictions.

From The Wall Street Journal

Macron emphasized that the budget "required compromises and concessions from everyone".

From Barron's