Necessary
Necessary adjective - Forcing one's compliance or participation by or as if by law.
Supporting and necessary are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Supporting" instead an adjective "Necessary".
Nearby Words: necessity, necessarily
Supporting
Supporting adjective - Serving to give support to the truth or factualness of something.
Necessary and supporting are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Necessary" instead an adjective "Supporting".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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They should have recruited him—if not to bear a ring, then as a supporting player who could nullify the color yellow whenever necessary.
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This time, however, the Super Mario brothers, for the most part, play a supporting role in the game, powering up his body when necessary (including making him a giant in order to Megaton Punch castles).
Source: Evil Versus Evil / Video Games -
It's still democratic, and quite progressive and open, but the political mainstream grows unfriendly to non-socialist points of view, and cronyism ensures that supporting the government is all but necessary to get ahead in society.
Source: Literature / Malê Rising
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