Needed
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Which means that yes, children have the trait needed, but it's not necessarily a positive one.
Source: Children Are Special - It needed Kafuka, a girl who can only see the positive in life, to complement him and talk him out of suicide.
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Zuko, by contrast, needed to find the original source of firebending before turning his practice of it to a more positive use.
Source: Bad Powers, Good People
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Positive and Needed. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/needed/positive
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Positive or Needed. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/needed/positive.
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