requires

verb

present tense third-person singular of require
as in needs
to have as a requirement the toy requires four batteries, which are not included

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Recent Examples of requires Medicaid, for example, requires states to pursue estate recovery for certain benefits paid on behalf of some recipients age 55 and older, including certain long-term care costs. — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026 Meeting their needs requires addressing stagnant Medicaid rates for behavioral health and ensuring health insurance covers behavioral needs, advocates said. — Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2026 Alongside the capacity differences, CIIT’s model requires cargo transshipment between ship and rail at each port, a process that adds time and operating costs that direct canal transit does not require. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 18 Aug. 2026 Building a single Nvidia AI server requires computing chips manufactured by Taiwan’s TSMC, memory chips supplied by South Korea’s SK Hynix or Samsung, and special technologies that combine them into AI accelerators. — John Liu, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2026 One of the key areas of disagreement between the two sides was whether to continue to plow more than the minimum the law requires into the city’s four dramatically underfunded pension funds, a practice begun under Mayor Lori Lightfoot. — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2026 That requires deliberate investment in skills, redesigned workflows and the change management that gets adoption to stick. — Patrick Pugh, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 To avoid a runoff, Graham Nordone needed to pass the 50% threshold in Tuesday’s special primary election, as South Carolina law requires a candidate to win more than half of the vote to secure their party’s nomination. — Max Grinstein, The Washington Examiner, 12 Aug. 2026 The motion requires county’s Department of Mental Health to report back to the Board within 120 days on how to implement the pilot and note any barriers. — Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 11 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for requires
  1. needs
  2. takes
  3. wants
  4. involves
Verb
  • The office needs the two systems — one to safely take whistleblower complaints, one to manage audit files.
    — Julie Watts, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Instead of asking only what a leader needs to do better, the question becomes what kind of environment that leader's presence—or absence—is creating.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of needs
Verb
  • Pipeline construction typically takes a matter of years and requires significant investment, some analysts said.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • This circuit takes one incoming signal and directs it toward different destinations based on another control signal.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of takes
Verb
  • Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy aren't part of this longer-term picture; SpaceX wants to phase them out and have Starship shoulder the load.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • No arrests have been made, and DeRamus wants to know why his home was hit and who is responsible.
    — Ryan Hughes, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of wants
Verb
  • Wildfire mapping is left to the states, which involves using complex computer models to determine the chances of a fire based on vegetation, terrain and fire behavior.
    — Lauren Sommer, NPR, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The matter involves accounting firm Bennett Verby, which stands accused of facilitating a research and development repayment fraud, according to The Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
    — Nana Ama Sarfo, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of involves

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