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The phrase "a thing that needs" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an object or concept that requires something or has a necessity.
Example: "This is a thing that needs immediate attention to prevent further issues."
Alternatives: "an item that requires" or "a matter that needs".
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To get a (non-walking) PR2 simply to recognise a thing that needs picking up still takes a lot of work.
I do not consider it a thing that needs to be justified, any more than walking or eating or going to bed.
"That is understood by Cate and I as a thing that needs to be done, in order to get the best out of it for myself at the company.
The single biggest challenge facing dark-sky advocates such as Harder is working out a way to change our understanding of darkness as a nefarious force, a thing that needs to be avoided or controlled, if not vanquished entirely.
Those honest painful things I am too uncomfortable to face in real life usually rear their heads in my fiction well before I even know they are a thing that needs to be hit at all.
"The world doesn't see it's a thing that needs to be changed, that we need to be doing something because our citizens are making it [their problem] now because we want to do something," said Jabs. "The government needs to see that their citizens want to see change".
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It was a thing that needed to be played out.
Whatever this was he had just seen, it was a thing that needed to be met head-on".
A big brick barbeque is a heavy thing that needs good foundations to support it.
He promptly apologized and rescinded the boycott call in a new e-mail message, "I did a wrong thing that needs to be cleared up".
A living thing that needs to breathe and move.
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