Dictate
Need
Need verb - To have as a requirement.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Thus, the party can literally dictate reality — though in a sense you need Doublethink to consider it to be literal.
Source: Doublethink - And for all it's flaws, American democracy does work... The United States doesn't need me to dictate, or worse, deprive her people of that most precious gift.
Source: My Country, Right or Wrong - They need an evil "god" to dictate their lives because the alternative is worse: that their suffering is meaningless and they have no one to blame for it but themselves.
Source: Awful Truth
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