needs

[Needs]

In such a manner as could not be otherwise

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Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; -- often with must, and equivalent to of need.

Adverb
in such a manner as could not be otherwise; "it is necessarily so"; "we must needs by objective"


adv.
Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; -- often with must, and equivalent to of need.


Needs

Needs , adv. [Orig. gen. of need, used as an adverb. Cf. -wards.] Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; -- often with must, and equivalent to of need.
A man must needs love mauger his head.
And he must needs go through Samaria.
He would needs know the cause of his reulse.

Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; -- often with must, and equivalent to of need.

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Usage Examples

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

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