Synonyms for necessities
ne·ces·si·ties

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1. List of paraphrases for "necessities":

   needs, essentials, imperatives, requirements, requisites, supplies

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1. Carl Sandburg:

   One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

2. Ted Rossman:

   Even if spending may be tailing off a bit, high inflation and higher interest rates are making balances harder to pay off, more people are putting necessities on credit cards and financing these expenses over time.

3. Octavius Winslow (1808-1878):

   Christ's boundless grace confronts our deep necessities. Christ's promised presence confronts our sad and gloomy loneliness. Jesus thus filled with grace so overflowing, with love so tender, with sympathy so exquisite, with power so illimitable, with resources so boundless, with a nature so changeless, stands before us and says to each trembling heart, 'Fear not!'”

4. Lloyd Austin:

   Our men and women in uniform and their families have enough to worry about, basic necessities like food and housing shouldn’t be among them.

5. Henry Clay:

   All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises.