Necessary
Necessary adjective - Forcing one's compliance or participation by or as if by law.
Occupied and necessary are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Occupied" instead an adjective "Necessary".
Nearby Words: necessity, necessarily
Both words in one sentence
- This is necessary because if they teleport into a space that is occupied by something else, the other object will be embedded into their body.
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Then there's this:Colonel Ernesto Bella: [in the now-occupied Calumet, Colorado] It would seem necessary to win the support of the people.
Source: Film / Red Dawn (1984) -
Marshal occupied, no fantastical weirdness necessary.
Source: Mysterious Antarctica
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