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Examples
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"Uncle says it can be arranged so that her name needn't come into it."
The Iron Woman Margaret Wade Campbell Deland 1901
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Secondly, my name needn't be told; though if the runagates knowed he was in my hands, they wouldn't think his chance any better on that account.
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Yet another movie whose name needn't change for the porn version (similar to "The Firm" and "Howard's End")
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But a man who has won two national titles needn't apologize to anyone.
FOXSports.com News 2009
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The 'needn't' here suggests it could all be rendered as hardware.
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"Well, now, yu 'needn't go t' git huffy with a man!" expostulated Moran, with an injured air.
The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall
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There's a fine fixed-in bed, an 'I have the room chairs I got when my Auntie Leeb de'ed, wi' a tidie or twa ower them, an 'an auld-fashioned roond tablie' at I bocht at a rowp -- ane o 'thae anes that cowps up an' sets back to the wa 'when you're no' needn't.
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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-- Well, y 'needn't t' put up no lunch for me in the mornin '.
The Rich Little Poor Boy Eleanor Gates 1913
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"Y'needn't make no cracks -- I'm on the square -- and I'll take no lip from anybody!"
Rimrock Jones Dane Coolidge 1906
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"Yo 'needn't hump yo'self to cotch me," cried the widow, wrathfully.
The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle or The Strange Cruise of the Steam Yacht. Edward Stratemeyer 1896
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