as in to require
to have as a requirement
getting new shoes would necessitate another trip to the mall
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This necessitates a dedicated, inventive team to ensure seamless integration and superior customer experience.
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Elodie Bouneau, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Kids’ backpacks are mass-produced quickly and cheaply, using low-quality materials and manufacturing techniques that permit the backpacks to wear and break down quickly, necessitating frequent replacement.
—Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2025
Head coach Kevin O’Connell, along with the rest of the staff and locker room, reveres right tackle Brian O’Neill, but O’Neill’s contract will become much heftier next season, necessitating restructuring conversations.
—Alec Lewis, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
These critics are largely unpersuaded by and impatient with American and Israeli arguments that Hamas alone necessitated this level of carnage by using human shields, or that a high civilian death toll was inevitable in densely urban terrain.
—Andrew Exum, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2025
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Elodie Bouneau, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Kids’ backpacks are mass-produced quickly and cheaply, using low-quality materials and manufacturing techniques that permit the backpacks to wear and break down quickly, necessitating frequent replacement.
—Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2025
Head coach Kevin O’Connell, along with the rest of the staff and locker room, reveres right tackle Brian O’Neill, but O’Neill’s contract will become much heftier next season, necessitating restructuring conversations.
—Alec Lewis, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
These critics are largely unpersuaded by and impatient with American and Israeli arguments that Hamas alone necessitated this level of carnage by using human shields, or that a high civilian death toll was inevitable in densely urban terrain.
—Andrew Exum, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for necessitate
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“Necessitate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/necessitate. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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