Forward
Need
Need verb - To have as a requirement.
Common collocations
| work | forward work | need work |
| number | forward number | need number |
| money | forward money | need money |
| bit | forward bit | need bit |
| Other words: information. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- Often goes hand-in-hand with the Anthropic Principle where the characters are exactly where they need to be when they need to be in order to move the story forward.
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Most escort vessels and Eldar ships have entirely forward-facing weaponry because they can maneuver much more effectively than the big clumsy seventeen-kilometer-long battle cathedrals and thus don't need weapons in more than one fire arc.
Source: Fixed Forward-Facing Weapon - In the first part of the Border Forest, you need Holy Water in order to summon a boss at the end of a side-path and defeat it so you can move forward.
Source: Guide Dang It / Eastern RPG
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