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verb

past tense of require

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of required
Adjective
The required affidavit must be signed under penalty of perjury, according to the DA's office. Jonathan Limehouse, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025 Critically, this approach achieves the required resolution without the enormous deployment complexity of a 20-meter circular primary or the operational overhead of a starshade. Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
Hacking a pre-Internet console Making this amusing amalgam of past and present technology possible required some clever engineering. ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025 In our case, the timing of the tides required us to head for port a day early, allowing for extra sightseeing time, to dine off the ship, and stretch our legs. Stefanie Waldek, AFAR Media, 12 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for required
Recent Examples of Synonyms for required
Adjective
  • Most Americans support common-sense measures like background checks, mandatory training, licensing, restrictions on magazine size, and safe-storage rules.
    John J. Donohue, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Florida’s state legislature needs to get involved to make other mandatory school vaccines optional,including those that protect against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio, measles, mumps and rubella.
    Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Is Executive Order 14224 even necessary?
    Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The partial closure order was coordinated with the Fresno County Sheriff's Office, along with multiple local, state, and federal agency cooperators, to identify the minimum area necessary for the safety of firefighting resources and forest visitors.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Think of it as a hospital’s central nervous system for information — continuously gathering signals, interpreting them, and routing critical insights where they are needed most.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • According to Champo, apply three to four drops onto the fingertips and massage where needed.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The new subject remains non-compulsory, but Screen Scotland hopes the appetite shown in pilots will drive wide adoption.
    Callum McLennan, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The 90-day window for lodging a challenge is tight, but veto referendums have been successful in Missouri as recently as 2017, when labor unions successfully organized to defeat a right-to-work law that would have banned compulsory union fees.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Collaboration across the value chain is essential.
    Michaila Byrne, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Some of these minerals include those essential to the production of phones and computer chips.
    Rebecca Schneid, Time, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Local government leaders have also wanted assurances that dollars raised in their counties would end up spent on transit systems there.
    Kate Talerico, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Arkansas Secretary of Agriculture Wes Ward, who moderated the discussion, wanted to know how agriculture departments could better work with companies, the federal government and consumers to be helpful and more effective.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Harris also had to run with a disgruntled incumbent president, who had been all but forced out of the race, looking over her shoulder.
    W. James Antle III, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The Garden State has traditionally leaned Democrat, with incumbent Governor Phil Murphy on the verge of completing his second term.
    Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • An integral part of the mentorship, Dillane said, was how designers could make their careers viable.
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Shota Imanaga and Jameson Taillon will be integral parts of the rotation along with rookie Cade Horton, but Cease's addition would bolster the rotation.
    Drew VonScio, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025

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“Required.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/required. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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