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require
verb as in need, want
Strongest match
Weak matches
depend upon, feel necessity for, have need, hurting for, stand in need
verb as in ask, demand; necessitate
Example Sentences
What Rachel Reeves' speech demonstrated is that big infrastructure improvement requires government action.
Currently, the only insect included in the EPA’s required pesticide testing is the adult honeybee.
And there is no required remediation protocol for school properties that have been exposed to potentially toxic smoke, debris and ash generated by a fire.
That meant, the rise in global and UK debt interest costs would require some spending cuts.
The filing is required within 30 days of the defendants being served with the lawsuit, which occurred the second week of January.
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When To Use
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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