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The phrase "almost needs to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating that something is very close to being necessary or required, but not quite there yet.
Example: "The project almost needs to be completed by the end of the week to meet the deadline."
Alternatives: "nearly has to" or "practically needs to".
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One almost needs to be reminded that she has a day job as one-fifth of a rather successful pop group.
For a club like this that has been through so much, it almost needs to return to the fans for a bit of TLC," said Birch.
"It hurts me to say it as a striker who almost needs to play up front with another, but the days of 4-4-2 agoodsteamgood teareare going," confesses Michael Owen.
This could be the contemporary equivalent of imagining what viewers of Picasso's constructions might have felt back in 1913 — except that the found object has traveled so far that it almost needs to be lost again to regain its charge as a radical art material.
It's something that's so obvious it almost needs to be restated.
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They almost need to run.
They almost needed to have that closure".
He said: "Sometimes I almost need to let things out.
We almost need to liberate men from their penises".
That you will almost need to be one need not disturb us.
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