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By 2024, Hawaii’s economy remained highly dependent on a weakened tourism industry, according to a state report issued last fall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
While France has built a series of reservoirs and diversion channels along its portion of the Rhine to manage the flows, on the German side the river runs freely and is highly dependent on rainfall.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
The amount depends on where your son lives, his age, the plan he selected, whether he is eligible for a subsidy, whether you claim him as a tax dependent, your household MAGI, among other factors.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
I point this out to counter an emerging narrative on Wall Street that the stock market’s odds in a given year are dependent on how it performed in prior years.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Once they reached the citadel, they were to restore its defunct pulley system so that their future comings and goings would not be dependent on flight.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Predictions that AI would kill half of all white-collar jobs or create a permanent class of unemployed welfare dependents were always far-fetched.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Having alienated even his most obsequious dependents, Nero fled the city and killed himself in A.D.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Do your parents qualify as your dependents for tax purposes?
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026
The first is the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance trust fund, which pays out benefits to retirees and dependents.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 9, 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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