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Meanings of dire need in English

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Usage of dire need in English
1
Wood said the United States wanted to help people in dire need.
Reuters
2
After seven years, the show is in dire need of a change.
News.com.au
3
Cape Town's embattled rail infrastructure is in dire need of urgent intervention.
The South African
4
Poor old John Edstrom was down in Pedro, perhaps in dire need.
King Coal : a Novel
5
Apparently, King Polemon of Pontus is in dire need of a wife.
Daughters of the Nile
6
She herself could not have behaved so to one in dire need.
Thyrza
7
I am, however, in dire need of some new service projects.
Feminist dot com
8
One year on, millions are still in dire need of assistance.
BBC
9
You start thinking about the other party's immediate, often dire need.
Ebony
10
For I do believe you are in dire need of a new hat.
Changeless
11
The place, he said, was in dire need of an overhaul.
Broke, usa: from pawnshops to poverty, inc.—how the working poor...
12
I fear you may soon be in dire need of both.
A feast for crows
13
I mean I don't think she's in dire need of a drastic rework.
Wired
14
As a patriot, she wishes to defend the Motherland in her dire need.
Beautiful assassin
15
But once more he was in dire need of some money.
The Story of Mankind
16
There in no such dire need that I enter Jerusalem under seven days.
The City of Delight: A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerus...
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South Africa
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New Zealand
Less common
Ireland
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