Definitions
Etymologies
- From need + -ed. The adjective follows from the verb. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Doubtless the country needed ornament, needed it very badly indeed, but it needed energy still more, and capital most of all, for its supply was ridiculously out of proportion to its wants.”
“Wisdom and power made him carry _just what was needed, in the face of adverse circumstances, and just at the time it was needed_.”
The Wonders of Prayer A Record of Well Authenticated and Wonderful Answers to Prayer
“Help was never more truly needed, for our poverty was never greater; nor did the help of the Lord ever come more manifestly from himself; for _the brother was gone on a good distance_, it was _between seven and eight o'clock in the morning_, and it was _so short a time before money would have been needed_.”
The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Müller
“If you needed to supply code snippets for multiple languages, you * needed* to supply a blank line formatted as normal between the code snippets:”
“Two key aspects of the term needed to be better explained, he asserted.”
“But in tough times, the label needed to do more to survive.”
“Obviously, her title needed to be changed, so I let her sit at the computer and type her article in.”
“That meant the title needed to find a way to improve its performance or be killed off.”
“Regardless, I found his style delivered everything the title needed: His women are sexy, his ghouls are disgusting, and his settings ooze atmosphere.”
“Therefore, I would need to be shown otherwise before I agreed that the title needed to be changed.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘needed’.
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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FUN - Beatles song titles
Typical words from Beatles song titles. Can you recreate the titles?
(Grammatical words have been omitted)another, three, place, work, eyes, new, said, give, face, day, going, like and 388 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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Duplicated Endings
Not an exhaustive list (there are probably scores of -erers and -ededs and -eses and -osos).
slyly, queue, caterer, malingerer, needed, stampeded, theses, cheeses, virtuosos, crisis, panini, banana and 9 more...
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6-letter words with precisely 1,2, & ...
allele, anatta, arrear, bedded, bettee, cocoon, doodad, gaggee, googol, hubbub, hammam, hummum and 30 more...
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Prosie: Obama's Inaugural Address
In keeping with my other Prosies (like this one). There were a number of phrases as well as words in this speech that I found particularly compelling.
My fellow citizens: I stand here ...we did not turn b..., when we were tested, what storms may come, icy currents, virtue, hope, alarmed, depth of winter, revolution, snow, enemy, abandoned and 257 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for needed.
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