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needs
[ needz ]
adverb
- of necessity; necessarily (usually preceded or followed by must ):
It must needs be so.
It needs must be.
needs
/ niːdz /
adverb
- preceded or foll by must of necessity
we will go, if needs must
we must needs go
plural noun
- what is required; necessities
his needs are modest
the needs of the third world
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Example Sentences
“The institution of marraige [sic] is under attack in our society and it needs to be strengthened,” Bush wrote.
But the other thing that needs to be done is for us citizens to do.
Ney said McDonnell needs to “keep a stiff lip” and stay in close contact with family members.
Following the Apatow references, Marge informs Homer that she needs to use the “Porta Potty.”
“If Charleston harbor needs improvement, let the commerce of Charleston bear the burden,” he said.
Urbanity ushers in water that needs no apology, and gives a zest to the worst vintage.
Yet if there is a measure of untruth in such pretty flatteries, one needs to be superhuman in order to condemn them harshly.
In one sense, then, the new issue has adequate expansibility for ordinary needs.
Even genius, however, needs direction and adjustment to secure the most perfect and reliable results.
The poverty of earlier days was the outcome of the insufficiency of human labor to meet the primal needs of human kind.
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