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Recent Examples of necessary
Adjective
Though this is promising, additional evidence is necessary to confirm the potential role peptides may play in protection against sun damage.13 3. Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 25 Apr. 2025 During a 2020 heat wave, California’s grid operator was forced to institute rotating outages, a necessary step to protect the grid in California and neighboring states. Michael Wara, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
Blakely has been charged with capital murder, while Washington is charged with child deprivation of necessaries with substantial harm. Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 19 Apr. 2023 Yet its location on a critical trade route through the Strait of Gibraltar and the challenge of Barbary pirates in the vicinity made a more official presence for the American necessary. Graham Cornwell, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2021 See All Example Sentences for necessary
Recent Examples of Synonyms for necessary
Adjective
  • White children also had fewer days from termination of parental rights to adoption finalization, a required step in the adoption process, with an average time of 273.5 days.
    Cheyanne M. Daniels, The Hill, 24 Apr. 2025
  • The Heat assert Pena hasn’t used the marks at issue in commerce, a required step under trademark law.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But, after Stroitel’s inevitable withdrawal from the 1986 KFK, attempts were eventually made to keep the club going.
    Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Their deaths were not inevitable—they were exposed to, and in many cases were pushed harmful content online, the kind any child could encounter.
    Stephanie Petit, People.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Understanding and regulating the trade in shark and ray meat is no longer optional but essential.
    Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Every child in New York deserves the chance to learn basic literacy, numeracy, science, and civics — skills essential for participating in society, holding a job, and fulfilling civic duties like voting or serving on a jury.
    David Bloomfield, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • For connoisseurs, the pairing menus are a must, blending storytelling and flavor with seamless precision.
    Rai Mincey, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Parental monitoring a must, chief says Mooresville police conducted a similar sting in May 2024 called Operation Artemis, which led to 15 arrests.
    Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • This even prohibits complimenting the food, which is practically considered mandatory these days.
    Judith Martin, Mercury News, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Alvarez had held the undisputed super middleweight crown, but the IBF stripped Alvarez of its belt in July 2024 after Alvarez failed to make a mandatory title defense against Scull.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Many Andor fans weren’t happy to learn that Disney+ intended to release the show’s second and final season in weekly three-episode chunks, as if the streamer were eager to be done with this outlier entry in the Star Wars franchise as quickly as possible.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2025
  • DraftKings Promo Code for NBA Playoffs, MLB Games The outcome of your initial wager doesn't matter, so try placing a bet as soon as possible to redeem the bonus.
    Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • India's import licensing requirements, foreign direct investment caps, and state-run trading monopolies control who can do business and under what terms.
    Garth Friesen, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Following that outbreak, California lawmakers strengthened childhood vaccination requirements for schoolchildren.
    Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Thus, players are limited by a carve out for compulsory and non-compulsory tournaments.
    Paul Tenorio, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Jack would begin a compulsory ninety-day psychiatric evaluation in the California Institution for Men in Chino, a rough place known to be brutal to younger inmates for the same possession charges.
    Susannah Cahalan, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2025

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“Necessary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/necessary. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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