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  • verb Present participle of need.

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Examples

  • "If 'Light My Fire' hadn't made the Doors into stars," Mr. Marcus suggests, "you can hear how their music could have curdled into artiness, everything self-referential, post-modern, each note a parody of something else, not a word needing to mean what it said, the group more popular in Paris or Milan."

    NYT > Home Page By DWIGHT GARNER 2011

  • "If 'Light My Fire' hadn't made the Doors into stars," Mr. Marcus suggests, "you can hear how their music could have curdled into artiness, everything self-referential, post-modern, each note a parody of something else, not a word needing to mean what it said, the group more popular in Paris or Milan."

    NYT > Home Page By DWIGHT GARNER 2011

  • "If 'Light My Fire' hadn't made the Doors into stars," Mr. Marcus suggests, "you can hear how their music could have curdled into artiness, everything self-referential, post-modern, each note a parody of something else, not a word needing to mean what it said, the group more popular in Paris or Milan."

    NYT > Home Page By DWIGHT GARNER 2011

  • "If 'Light My Fire' hadn't made the Doors into stars," Mr. Marcus suggests, "you can hear how their music could have curdled into artiness, everything self-referential, post-modern, each note a parody of something else, not a word needing to mean what it said, the group more popular in Paris or Milan."

    NYT > Global Home By DWIGHT GARNER 2011

  • His eyes were swollen and red when he returned, not a word needing to be exchanged between us.

    NYT > Home Page By DEAN E. MURPHY 2012

  • What I will be needing is a table (preferably wrought-iron and glass-topped) with chairs.

    Purchasing Some Used Furniture (Sofa, Table, etc.) 2009

  • Then got caught up in needing more gun to be successful and for years shot my Ruger 300WM with Redfield 3x9 with drop comp, and still my favourite to get the job done on elk, bears, etc.

    If You could have just one rifle... 2009

  • Then got caught up in needing more gun to be successful and for years shot my Ruger 300WM with Redfield 3x9 with drop comp, and still my favourite to get the job done on elk, bears, etc.

    If You could have just one rifle... 2009

  • What I will be needing is a table (preferably wrought-iron and glass-topped) with chairs.

    Purchasing Some Used Furniture (Sofa, Table, etc.) 2009

  • There is no shame in needing a steady shoulder when your world has been shaken.

    “Who, If I Cried Out, Would Hear Me?” On Twitter, Tales And Tragedy | Her Bad Mother 2009

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