dependent
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“We are dependent on these jobs,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The government said a pause would lead to the UK losing investment and being dependent on overseas computing for sensitive data processing.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
There’s always something, anytime you have an industry that’s dependent on a technological element and there’s competition for people’s attention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
This is mainly due to concerns about people offering unsuitable foods and birds becoming dependent on humans.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
She would still have some money, so she wouldn’t be dependent.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
Created in the early 1990s, private-placement life insurance takes advantage of tax-code provisions intended to encourage people to provide for their dependents using life insurance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Even after leaving dependents behind, the Ten Thousand were chronically short of food, and their efforts to feed themselves becomes one of this book’s driving themes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
I own my home outright, have no children or other dependents, and my closest relatives are my siblings, nieces and nephews.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
The SSA, which handles benefits for more than 75 million retirees, people with disabilities and dependents, said it made sweeping productivity gains.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
One morning, we were summoned to the dining-room — the servants, the family, the dependents — and told that there the sole hope of our College awaited us.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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