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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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Those low-risk dabs and flicks, nudges and nurdles, were valuable to England on a pitch which required a batter to play the percentages.

From BBC

DeepSeek R1’s success challenged the idea that AI development would require asymptotic demand for hardware and outsize profits for Nvidia — shaking the very foundation that the U.S. bull market had been built upon.

From MarketWatch

Using this technique, the team examined tandem catalyst systems in which heat released by one reaction drives another reaction that requires heat input.

From Science Daily

The heel bones also appear to have been sufficiently large to accommodate the tendon width required for this form of movement.

From Science Daily

That, they say, requires a long-term strategic response.

From BBC