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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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Require diversity in trials so benefits and risks are known across populations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

Require candidates and/or newly elected officials be trained in how to work with one another.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2023

Require them to do so as a condition of going to work or enrolling in school.

From Washington Post • Jul. 30, 2021

Require social media companies to provide greater transparency of their content moderation rules and procedures, including how their algorithms influence what users see, and enforce these disclosures through robust oversight.

From Slate • Dec. 2, 2020

When he Came to Make a Choice of some means of Earning a Livelihood, he found he was Unsuccessful, for he had no Specialty, and Every Employer seemed to Require an Expert in his Line.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney




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