necessitate
verb (used with object)
to make necessary or unavoidable.
has necessitated
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present perfectof necessitate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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His own role also has morphed during that time, when he moved from corporate controller to chief accounting officer to CFO, which he said has necessitated the need to adapt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The size of the Games has necessitated moving some events outside of city limits, including Inglewood and Long Beach, while adding the San Fernando Valley for the first time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2025
That has necessitated that I take hormone replacement therapy, similar to what transgender individuals take, but not to affirm any gender presentation purely because my body needs hormones to survive.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2023
That has necessitated checks from January 2021 on some goods coming from the rest of the United Kingdom.
From Reuters ● Jan. 9, 2023
It is the growth in size of the city that has necessitated the growth of this coarser traffic that has made "Town" at last so utterly detestable.
From Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
