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Recent Examples of necessitate And the president’s decisions created constitutional questions about whether Los Angeles necessitated using military force against civilians — a move only legally acceptable under the Insurrection Act that Trump hasn’t invoked yet, according to NPR. Abby Pender, Charlotte Observer, 12 June 2025 Mercury is toxic to both animals and people in a number of ways, necessitating effective controls to keep people from being harmed, Paul Anastas, director of the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering at Yale University and former assistant administrator for the EPA, told ABC News. Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 11 June 2025 Affordable housing necessitates higher density building within existing developments or further suburban expansion requiring more infrastructure and greater commuting. Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2025 In 2003, failure of a vertical strut necessitated emergency repairs to the bridge, during which it was closed for 10 days. Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 11 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for necessitate
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Verb
  • The underground site at Fordow required the use of sophisticated bunker-buster bombs.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 23 June 2025
  • Merging those datasets into a unified Salesforce environment requires careful data mapping to ensure that fields align effectively and relationships between unique data objects are preserved.
    Vamsi Gosu, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Verb
  • In order to find out if this was the case, doctors needed to dilate his pupils to check.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 June 2025
  • The Padres need a right-handed bat to at least cycle in regularly as a DH.
    Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 June 2025

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“Necessitate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/necessitate. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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