Example Sentences

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Cardiff University said the institution understood the impact the last few months had had on colleagues, adding it faced "significant challenges to our sustainability" which had "necessitated some very difficult decisions".

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2025

The company blamed a redesign of the paper, which had necessitated changes in the columnists used.

From The Guardian • Dec. 7, 2018

Lingering knee pain — so severe that doctors were surprised the 6-foot-5, 320-pound offensive lineman was able to play through it — had necessitated Williams’s sporadic absence on the field last season.

From Washington Post • Jun. 13, 2018

The family’s impoverishment, which had necessitated moving to a crowded and possibly unsanitary log house, deepened the wound.

From BusinessWeek • Oct. 17, 2011

Mr. Garry went on to explain that these abuses had necessitated the organisation of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

From Atlantis by Seltzer, Adele Szold