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Recent Examples of needful
Adjective
Who promises tomorrows to a whole needful planet, restrikes that match? Corey Van Landingham, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023 What sort of response was needful? Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 14 Jan. 2013 They are not found to be such on the injustice and violence of individuals, and lose their efficacy in proportion to the number combined together, that is, in proportion as their efficacy becomes needful. James Freeman, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2022 Sometimes environments and selection pressures change radically, and large effect mutations may become needful. Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 18 May 2010 For Queen and other Black poets, hip-hop is not only beats and rhymes but something more needful. Adam Bradley, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021 Oxfam exhorts its supporters to send things to the needful Cratchits of the developing world. Matthew Sweet, The Economist, 4 Dec. 2020 McBride was touched by the way, in their later years, Marcroft was the primary caregiver for Joyce, who had become needful of that care. Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Nov. 2020 Many proponents of critical race theory — whose animating idea is that race is the one thing needful, the single lens through which all other phenomena should be viewed — are indeed trying to compel compliance. Greg Weiner, National Review, 10 Sep. 2020
Noun
The actor did indeed ‘get it together’ and is doing the needful to make things official. Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 4 Nov. 2024 Even on this side of the border, the supply of people without legal status but needful of income has led to employers’ brazenly violating child-labor laws. The Editors, National Review, 5 May 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for needful
Adjective
  • Boasberg, however, gave the administration until Thursday at noon to comply or justify withholding the information, stating that his request was necessary to determine if the government deliberately ignored the court's order.
    Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Going home just before the season turns was necessary, especially since the pop star had a busy end to last season.
    India Espy-Jones, Essence, 20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • But there is another concerning trend and area that has to be improved — their poor record on second balls.
    Rob Tanner, The Athletic, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Flooding may also occur in poor drainage and urban areas.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • United could put the money earned into their own ground’s renewal.
    Michael Walker, The Athletic, 15 Mar. 2025
  • On July 11, 2022, Shah switched her original plea of not guilty to guilty, taking responsibility for the fraud and money laundering charges.
    Diane J. Cho, People.com, 15 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The fish tacos at Tide Tables in Cortez are a must, and several spots in the Bradenton area beach communities like Hurricane Hanks, The Sandbar Restaurant, and Woody’s River Roo are also worth a visit.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The tableside guacamole—mashed to order and impossibly fresh—is a must, setting the stage for smoky, slow-roasted tacos and a cocktail list stacked with premium tequilas and mezcals.
    Keyla Vasconcellos, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
  • And the Intelligent Mirror prototype scans your face and monitors your most essential health statistics in one convenient, portable mirror package.
    Lisa A. Beach, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Kicking Margulis and Dyson out of polite scientific society for these consensus violations would have impoverished science.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The nuances of being the older sibling, and especially the eldest daughter of an impoverished, fractured or immigrant family, are beginning to gain more traction in mainstream media.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • As an bonus, this would save the cash taking unnecessary detours to the federal government to pay bureaucrats, some of whom Elon Musk’s DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) suspects to be curiously well-off indeed.
    Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • In addition to the cash payments, victims may be eligible for one year of three-bureau identity theft protection, credit monitoring, and at least $1 million of fraud/identity theft insurance, the settlement website states.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Holtec can go ahead with the tube repairs on its schedule, but the company does so at its own risk as the NRC will decide whether the repairs meet requirements in the end, Burnell said.
    Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Gary contends the user rates for the three communities are decades old and too low to meet the requirements of a federal consent decree.
    Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2025

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“Needful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/needful. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.

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