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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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We need to pull the plug on screens, inspire our young men with stories of fortitude and require them to work at home and do hard things in school.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Chatterjee said any impact would likely be limited, however, as both NPO and CPO would require lasers from Coherent and Lumentum.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 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

Limiting long-term global warming to below 1.5°C will require far more than cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026

Some children, however, require more extensive modifications to the curriculum in order to succeed.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin




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