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as in necessary
impossible to do without
all the dreaded, necessitous decisions that one must make when arranging the funeral of a loved one
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as in impoverished
lacking money or material possessions
amidst the holiday feasting, merrymaking and spending, it was easy to overlook the necessitous members of the community
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as in urgent
needing immediate attention
firmly of the belief that no matter is so necessitous that it cannot be put off until tomorrow
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Recent Examples of necessitous
Exclusive dedication to necessitous employment without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders John a bland young male.
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Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2021
Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for necessitous
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Data is conflicting on whether vitamin D is beneficial in cancer, and more research is necessary.Kirstyn Hill, PharmD, MPH, Health, 8 Dec. 2024
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Let Mentorship Develop Organically Formal mentorship arrangements aren’t always necessary.Dr. Ruth Gotian, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
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In Delhi, impoverished kids are learning to love reading and math, thanks to a police officer’s makeshift school.Shefali Rafiq, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Dec. 2024
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Assad’s fall ends more than six decades of Baath Party rule that sought to center Syria as a leader in the Arab world, but instead left it corruption-riddled and impoverished.Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
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Given the breakneck speed at which OpenAI is continuing its for-profit conversion, this is a special case with an urgent necessity for action.Alex Heath, The Verge, 14 Dec. 2024
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In Sudan alone, the United Nations estimates that an internal conflict has left 25 million people, half the country’s population, in need of urgent humanitarian assistance.Michael Posner, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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Good data is essential—ML models can only perform as well as the training data they are fed.William Mullane, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
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A couple of vintage cartoons and an original theatrical trailer round out the latest essential package from Warners’ boutique label.Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 17 Dec. 2024
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The cub was also hairless and found in poor condition.Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
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In many poor and densely populated neighborhoods across the country, people have access to free, unmetered electricity.Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
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Due to problems at home, the toddler had been diagnosed with an acute stress disorder that was impacting his speech and ability to regulate his emotions.Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 15 Dec. 2024
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And yet Elwood and Turner experience Nickel as an acute narrative dilemma, the dilemma of their lives.Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2024
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Who promises tomorrows to a whole needful planet, restrikes that match?Corey Van Landingham, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
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What sort of response was needful?Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 14 Jan. 2013
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Even the Kremlin’s own human rights council had denounced the charges as unwarranted, adding its voice to a chorus of support for Prokopyeva in what became a battle of wills between an impecunious local reporter and Russia’s powerful security apparatus.Andrew Higgins, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2020
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His half-Danish father, Prince Andrew, second in line to the Greek throne, was sentenced to death after the army was defeated in Smyrna by the Turks, saved only by the intervention of George V. In 1930, after eight years of impecunious exile in Paris, the family dispersed.Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2020
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“Necessitous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/necessitous. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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