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need

noun as in emergency; pressing lack

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Example Sentences

The Odo commandment “do not despair of death” reads on the surface like compassion — acceptance of loss is something everyone, including Faruq, needs to manage.

Also, in a state that needs housing, displaced residences could be replaced by accessory dwelling units on the same block.

At 3:40 a.m., a fire official told operations over the radio that an elderly woman who lived west of Lake Avenue needed help getting out, referencing the recent evacuation order.

“I am committed,” she said, “to ensuring that you have the tools and resources you need to safely and effectively carry out your mission.”

“It’s having a major effect on what people think needs to be done in terms of making housing safer.”

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What are other ways to say need?

The verb need often suggests urgency, stressing the necessity of supplying what is lacking: to need an operation, better food, a match to light the fire. Require, which expresses necessity as strongly as need, 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. 

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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