Examples of necessitate in a Sentence
New safety regulations necessitated adding a railing to the stairs.
getting new shoes would necessitate another trip to the mall
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As a result, the team spends several hours revising it in the wrong direction, necessitating two additional rounds of feedback.
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Shani Harmon, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
About to be released from the hospital nearly two months later, I was stricken with a ruptured appendix, necessitating emergency surgery.
—Si Liberman, Hartford Courant, 10 Mar. 2025
According to Bloomberg, Wilson's year-end target (6,500) would necessitate a roughly 13 percent rally in the S&P from its current levels—a gain that, while significant, is not unprecedented and falls below the index's average annual increases in recent years.
—William Lambers, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
Though onscreen the plot necessitated that these women wind up married (and presumably with a mortgage), the fantasy of the single girl in her apartment has proved unmovable.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
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Shani Harmon, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
About to be released from the hospital nearly two months later, I was stricken with a ruptured appendix, necessitating emergency surgery.
—Si Liberman, Hartford Courant, 10 Mar. 2025
According to Bloomberg, Wilson's year-end target (6,500) would necessitate a roughly 13 percent rally in the S&P from its current levels—a gain that, while significant, is not unprecedented and falls below the index's average annual increases in recent years.
—William Lambers, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
Though onscreen the plot necessitated that these women wind up married (and presumably with a mortgage), the fantasy of the single girl in her apartment has proved unmovable.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
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“Necessitate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/necessitate. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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necessitate
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ne·ces·si·tate
ni-ˈses-ə-ˌtāt 
necessitated; necessitating
: to make necessary
sick enough to necessitate staying home
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