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What is the difference between necessary and needed ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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They have the same meaning basically. Necessary may be more urgent and mean that something will not work without while needed can be used less urgently.
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They have the same meaning basically. Necessary may be more urgent and mean that something will not work without while needed can be used less urgently.
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I agree that they mean the same thing. I think "necessary" will probably be more natural in most cases, though; it's the more common of the two.
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