Failings and Needs

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Needs and failings are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Needs" instead a noun "Failings".

Needs adverb - Because of necessity.

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Failings and needs are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Failings" instead a noun "Needs".

Nearby Words: need, needed

Mike gives a major one to Olaf in the second season episode House of Jerome for always being gone when the family needs him, being strung out on drugs, and his general failings as an oracle.

Source: Series / The Almighty Johnsons
Lucky Luke stories often devote more time to the comic failings of the episode's bad guys, since their defeat is inevitable (which isn't to say it's easy, Luke always needs to plan something).

Source: Comically Invincible Hero
Beneath the gallons of blood and swearing the film is actually this compared to the 1932 version, largely because of its protagonist; Tony Montana, for all the acts he commits, has lines he won't cross and makes a good point about how society needs people like him to blame for their own failings.

Source: Film / Scarface (1983)

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