"articulated a need" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to express that someone has expressed or made clearly known a want or a need. For example: "The CEO articulated a need to hire more employees to keep up with the company's rapid growth."
It articulated a need for new products in both sporting goods and airframes.
"An alternative approach [to the traditional one] is more of an innovation or entrepreneurial approach...where a company or an individual entrepreneur has some sort of insight that results in some sort of product or service that at present, no market segment has articulated a need for," Omura said.
"Neither agency has recognized, let alone articulated, a need for change," the report states, adding that they could be subject to pro-prosecution biases.
Trump has thus far focused his Syrian strategy on bombing ISIS, though his partner on the presidential ticket, Gov. Mike Pence, articulated a need to "be prepared to use military force to strike the military forces of the Assad regime" during Tuesday's vice presidential debate.
They articulated a need to work the crisis over when the level of anxiety was endurable.
However, staff articulated a need for gender sensitization and capacity development in general.
The first phase of architecture is articulating a need; the second is creating a fantasy; the third is coaxing people with money and power to share that fantasy.
Few people can articulate a need for a concept that doesn't exist, and digital companies often sell solutions to problems that people didn't know they had.
According to Vanessa Pinfold of the McPin Foundation, it has been easier to ask for £3 to send a mosquito net than to articulate a need for mental health research.
Finally, we provide comments on the utility of these data and patterns to conservation, articulating a need to incorporate phylogeographic information as part of the rationale in establishing conservation priorities at the organismal and geographical area levels.
There has also been continued debate about antibiotic treatment for pneumonia at the community with local decision makers repeatedly articulating a need for more evidence.
