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The phrase "already needed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is required or necessary at the present moment or has been required for some time prior.
Example: "The supplies are already needed for the upcoming project, so please order them as soon as possible."
Alternatives: "previously required" or "currently necessary".
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Efficiency-enhancing restructuring was already needed in many cases.
Worse for Ireland and Portugal, which have already needed bail-outs.
The opposition parties control the upper-house Bundesrat, so their consent is already needed for big legislation.
The discretionary fund will not be able to cope and is already needed to plug gaps in people's housing benefit.
Noncondensing turbines are therefore an economical means of generating power (cogeneration) when substantial amounts of heating or process steam are already needed.
If he ever thought badly of me for needing something from Haiti, this place where so many people already needed so much, he never let it show.
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Germany, though, may already need something tighter.
The president's strategy already needs rethinking.
But apparently they already need to be changed.
"And we already need 400 years to make real progress.
Much of the building work has been shoddy, and already needs repair.
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